The Nankai Trough stretches from Shizuoka Prefecture to off the coast of Kyushu. Earthquake probability is calculated on the basis of the length of interval between past earthquakes and the number ...

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The expert panel assumed a magnitude-9 level earthquake originating in a sea area from Suruga Bay in Shizuoka Prefecture to the Hyuganada coast off Miyazaki Prefecture in the Kyushu region.

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... Prefecture and upper 5 in parts of Tokyo to a barely perceptible 1 in Kyushu. There have been only five occasions when a level 7 was recorded ...

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When Washingtonians talk about the possibility of a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the conversation typically focuses on the immediate impacts: the threat of casualties ...

A significant 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Chile and Argentina, prompting a tsunami warning. Chilean authorities initially ordered coastal evacuations in the ...

Earlier on Sunday, an earthquake of magnitude 3.1 struck Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district, said the National Center for Seismology (NCS). An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit Alirajpur district of ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter Scale hit Pakistan at around 4 pm on Monday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). According to NCS, the earthquake hit at a ...

magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Indonesia's Sulawesi region on Saturday (May 3), according to the country's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). The agency reported on X ...

Washington state has seen several recent earthquakes ranging from small tremors near Tacoma and Vashon Island to larger quakes off the west coast. This list of stories illustrates the region's ...