The northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has seen a series of earthquakes registering 4 on Japan's 7-point seismic intensity ...

Japan is no stranger to severe earthquakes. It lies on the Ring of ... The Nankai Trough is a 700-kilometer long (435-mile) subduction zone, which refers to when tectonic plates slip beneath ...

an underwater subduction zone that scientists believe is capable of producing temblors up to magnitude 9.1. After a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook southern islands in Japan on Thursday, ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ...

A large fault zone sits beneath the trough ... “This short-term risk becomes less every day that another earthquake doesn’t occur.” Japan is no stranger to megaquakes, and Thursday ...

A Nankai Trough earthquake has struck Japan every 100 to 150 years—and ... priority regions based on the expanded flood risk zones, as the report highlighted the importance of swift evacuation ...