T he Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles below the ocean’s surface.Until now, this deep-sea environment has ...

Scientists warn seismic energy accumulating under the Chishima Trench off Hokkaido has the potential to trigger a magnitude-8 ...

The central government decided on Nov. 8 that in the event of a huge earthquake along the Japan Trench or the Chishima Trench, it will issue an alert warning of the potential for follow-up ...

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 ...

The French Army's Battle-Lab Terre laboratory is testing an intriguing helmet from Japan called the Ronin, which protects not ...

The panel explains that these areas have high probabilities because massive earthquakes centering in the Chishima Trench, Japan Trench and the Nankai Trough have been occurring at intervals of a ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large enough to possibly trigger a magnitude 9-level mega-quake. Researchers ...

Lakshmi Mohanbabu became the first Singaporean to send her artwork into space. Fast forward a couple of years and the local artist, alongside tech firm NuStar and Nanyang Technological University (NTU ...

Experts at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have been studying the trench with scientists from Tohoku University and Hokkaido University and believe the plates may have ...