Japan is facing the risk of a possible "megaquake" in the near future, following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that occurred off the southern coast on Thursday. If such a megaquake were to occur, it ...

Kuroshio town would be hit by a 34-meter-high wave, the highest across Japan ... a range of initiatives over 13 years since the tsunami height was first predicted. The hanami party was held ...

which equals a small chance of a big wave. "This was a lateral 'strike-slip' quake; minimal up/down motion, so very low ...

Tonga and Niue, which is northeast of where the quake struck, could now see a tsunami wave of between 0.3m to one metre. While the Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Kermadec Islands ...