Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary on Japan's Pacific coast. A member of the JMA's expert panel says research has confirmed that a major earthquake can ...

Experts now believe there is an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude nine tremor occurring in the Nankai Trough off Japan's ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep ...

The plate boundary has a history of huge earthquakes ... When the megaquake advisory was issued last week, Central Japan Railway Co. decided to run bullet trains at a slower speed on the Tokaido ...

A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan early Jan. 22 without ... is expected to strike along the boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate. But the Jan. 22 temblor ...