Not far off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, a crack exists in the Earth's crust. This fissure is along a fault line that stretches for almost 700 miles.
Many municipalities at risk of damage from a possible Nankai Trough megaquake lack an understanding of how the government's warning system works, a government survey showed Tuesday. The Cabinet ...
This file photo taken Aug. 14, 2024, shows a beach in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, temporarily closed due to a week-long Nankai Trough megaquake advisory. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Some 65 ...
Some 65 percent of Japan's municipalities tapped to strengthen disaster preparedness said they were confused about how to respond to a Nankai Trough megaquake advisory issued for the first time this ...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck Ishikawa and other central Japan prefectures Tuesday, the weather agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The 10:47 p.m. quake measured a lower 5 ...
Southern California’s last megaquake occurred in 1857, when an earthquake with a magnitude of around 7.8 ruptured about 225 miles of the San Andreas fault between Monterey County and San ...
“At least I get more sun now,” she joked. Rawls Tree Service uses a chainsaw to cut branches from a fallen tree. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News) Across the street, Patty and Peter Rosse said in ...
A very small earthquake was reported in Massachusetts on Monday, according to a local observatory. Lunenberg, near the New Hampshire border, had 1.5 magnitude shaking around 1 p.m., according to ...