The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has called for continued caution over potential tremors and tsunamis despite a gradual ...

The Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea Plate is slipping under the Eurasia Plate at the bottom of the sea off the ...

Tremors in the Nankai Trough, south of Kobe, have increased recently as seismologists flag higher risks of a major quake in ...

Japan's government and experts have issued a warning about the increasing likelihood of a mega-earthquake striking the nation ...

On January 17, 1995, an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 devastated ... fault beneath the seabed off southern Japan, running from southern Kyushu to near Mount Fuji. The panel’s previous assessment ...

TOKYO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA ... seismic activity a week after the magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Kyushu region. The earthquake caused a tremor measuring ...

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake that jolted the Tokyo area ... Roughly 24 hours after the magnitude-7.1 quake on Aug. 8 in Kyushu, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first megaquake advisory ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... Prefecture and upper 5 in parts of Tokyo to a barely perceptible 1 in Kyushu. There have been only five occasions when a level 7 was recorded ...

The Japan Meteorological ... Q: What is the Nankai Trough Earthquake? A: The Nankai Trough is an ocean-floor trench that runs along the Pacific coast from the Tokai to Kyushu regions.

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