Japan raises probability of megaquake to over 80% in next 30 years - Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent ...

A Japanese government committee on earthquake research has changed its estimate of the chance of a Nankai Trough megaquake in the next 30 years to around 80 percent, from the previous 70 to 80 ...

The Earthquake Research Committee said it has increased its estimate of the probability to between 75 and 82 percent from ...

Earlier this week, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued its second-ever Nankai Trough Extra Information after an earthquake of magnitude of 6.6 struck southwestern Japan. But while the jolting ...

When a quake struck a similar area in southern Japan in August of last year, an advisory regarding a possible megaquake along the Nankai Trough was issued for the first time in history ...

The probability that a Nankai Trough megaquake will occur in the next ... occurring in the active faults and seabed around Japan based on data from Jan. 1. According to the most recent report ...

The Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea Plate is slipping under the Eurasia Plate at the bottom of the sea off the southwest coast of Japan, produces massive earthquakes about every 100-150 years.

The Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea Plate is slipping under the Eurasia Plate at the bottom of the sea off the south-west coast of Japan, produces massive earthquakes about every 100-150 ...

TOKYO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- The probability of a massive earthquake in Japan's Nankai Trough occurring within the next 30 years has been revised from the previous estimate of 70 percent to 80 ...

The probability of a magnitude 8 to 9 quake along the trough in the Pacific had previously been estimated at 70 to 80 percent since 2018. Noting that M6.0-level quakes have repeatedly occurred in ...