They also caused significant damage in Hawaii. Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11, 2011. The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest island.

The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the archipelagic nation, according to a new estimation released on Monday.

A newly released Japanese government report warns that a long-feared massive earthquake in the nation’s Nankai Trough could ...

A possible magnitude-nine earthquake along the Nankai Trough, a submarine trough near the South of Japan, may lead to up to ...

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The Japanese government released a report on March 31 highlighting just how catastrophic the effects of the next ‘megaquake’ ...

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