According to a recent estimate, if a magnitude-9 quake hits the Japan Trench in winter late at night, some 199,000 people would die. If it occurs in the Chishima Trench, it projected that 100,000 ...
The government was urged to amend a special law enacted in 2004 to prepare the public for a megaquake in either the Japan Trench that is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire off northeastern Japan or ...