Japan's meteorological agency has published a map showing which parts of the country ... The Nankai Trough forms a trench-like topography on the seabed where the Philippine Sea Plate, the oceanic ...

The earthquake probability map shows high-risk areas in red ... because massive earthquakes centering in the Chishima Trench, Japan Trench and the Nankai Trough have been occurring at intervals ...

According to a recent estimate, if a magnitude-9 quake hits the Japan Trench in winter late at night, some 199,000 people would die. If it occurs in the Chishima Trench, it projected that 100,000 ...

The government was urged to amend a special law enacted in 2004 to prepare the public for a megaquake in either the Japan Trench that is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire off northeastern Japan or ...