The South China Sea Trough is a highly active seismic zone located off the coast of western Japan. A major earthquake in this region could trigger catastrophic tsunamis, with Kuroshio Town being one ...

A cherry blossom viewing party held here on March 30 was not a typical “hanami” event, given its theme of “avoiding death.” ...

On 11 March 2011, an earthquake hit Japan with a magnitude ... Places in Japan like Shizuoka, Kochi, and Wakayama would be the most vulnerable. But a rupture or a tsunami would not be the last ...

The most vulnerable zone remains the Nankai Trench, a seismic powder keg that last stirred ... while cities like Kuroshio and Tosashimizu in Kochi Prefecture face waves as high as 34 meters ...

By compiling observations of recent earthquakes, Rowe and Hatem conclude that from Turkey to California, it's not just a ...

Having held discussions with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) over the procedural formalities for issuing municipal bonds to fund its revenue-generating projects, the Kochi ...

Explore Istanbul's urgent need for earthquake-proof architecture as experts warn of potential seismic events along the North ...

Hyderabad: India will soon have a new map of earthquake hazard zones, keeping up with the fast-developing infrastructure needs of the country, and will return from the current five-zone to a six ...

it's not just a single strand of a fault but quite often a branching network of fault strands involved in an earthquake, making the fault zone hundreds of meters wide. "So that suggests that ...

Manjil (20 June 1990): M7.3 earthquake near Rasht and Rudbar killed some 16,000, collapsing infrastructure and underscoring vulnerability in the Alborz-Caspian transition zone. Ardabil (28 Feb 1997): ...