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

The Japanese government warns of an 80% chance of a magnitude 8-9 earthquake in the Nankai Trough within 30 years. Experts ...

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the southwestern part of Japan on Monday, Jan. 13, prompting a tsunami advisory to be ...

Japan, like California, has many faults not on plate boundaries that are quite capable of producing earthquakes in the magnitude 6 to 7 range and causing major damage. We tend to fixate on the ...

Several of Japan's nuclear power plants ... on the seabed where the Philippine Sea Plate converges with the Eurasian Plate. This tectonic boundary marks the point where the oceanic Philippine ...

Along plate boundary faults ... maps out the edge of the locked part of the subduction fault in Japan (S. Miyazaki, Earthquake Research Institute, Japan) and Alaska (D. Christensen, Univ.

Geologists don't have a crystal ball that can foresee future earthquakes ... south of Japan's biggest island of Honshu. It’s a subduction zone located where the Philippine Sea Plate is being ...

A strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has rattled southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday that tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, ...

There have been no reports of damage linked to the tremor that happened on Monday, Jan. 13 A 6.9-magnitude earthquake ... by a part of the boundary between the land plate and the Philippine ...