A Japanese research team says it has detected seafloor subsidence near the Nankai Trough for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/28/japan/seafloor-subsidence-detected-near-nankai-trough/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes #oceans
A government panel now believes a megaquake will occur along the Nankai Trough with a probability of 60% to 94.5% or higher within the next 30 years — a hike from a previously announced estimate of around 80%. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/27/japan/japan-nankai-trough-megaquake-probability/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes
The government has held a disaster drill under the assumption that a megaquake had occurred in the Nankai Trough off Japan's Pacific coast. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/japan/japan-disaster-prevention-day-drill/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #disasterpreparedness #shigeruishiba #nankaitrough #earthquakes
The Japanese government has corrected the number of potential advance evacuees in the event of an alert for a possible megaquake in the Nankai Trough off the country's coast to about 516,000, from 520,000 initially. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/japan/japan-corrects-number-of-potential-megaquake-evacuees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes #oita #disasterpreparedness
More than 520,000 people in Japan would be urged to evacuate for a week if an alert is issued for a possible megaquake in the Nankai Trough off the country's Pacific coast, a government survey showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/megaquake-520000-evacuate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes
A massive earthquake off Russia’s eastern coast triggered Pacific-wide tsunami warnings, minimal damage, and renewed warnings that Japan and the region remain dangerously underprepared for the next major disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/08/01/japans-vulnerability-to-natural-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #earthquakes #tsunami #russia #nankaitrough
Japan has held the first meeting of its panel tasked with reviewing guidelines on how companies and local governments should respond to emergency information on a possible earthquake in the Nankai Trough. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/25/japan/nankai-trough-quake-info-guidelines-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes #localgovernment
In the first update to a disaster-prevention basic plan since it was created in 2014, the government adopted a 10-year plan to reduce the death toll resulting from a Nankai Trough megaquake by 80%. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/japan/nankai-quake-deaths-reduction-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #earthquakes #tsunami #disasterpreparedness #nankaitrough