There is a 70-80% chance that the Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquake will occur in the next 30 years. It is predicted to cause more extensive damage than the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency plans to conduct a simulation of the Sunda Strait megathrust earthquake this month. Michael Sitanggang, the Head of the Jakarta BPBD ...

Scientists are keeping a close watch on the chances of a megathrust earthquake happening soon. These are the strongest types ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Monday acknowledged the possibility of future ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — It’s not a question of if, but when: A megathrust earthquake will someday occur along the subduction zone that lies beneath the Pacific Northwest. In the last 10,000 years, the ...

A megathrust earthquake occurs in an area called a subduction zone. Subduction zones are created when one of the tectonic plates slides beneath another. When the plates get stuck but are still ...

Megathrust faults can generate some of Earth’s largest quakes. One example is the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which rocked Japan and fomented a tsunami that devastated coastal areas, as shown.

Nankai megathrust earthquakes are considered a top priority of Japan’s disaster management strategy and the government has introduced schemes to prepare for a potential blowout.

According to Japan's Earthquake Research Committee, there’s an 80 percent chance that a megaquake could occur in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years. That's slightly up from the 70 to 80 ...