Southern Pacific coastal regions are at the greatest risk of earthquakes strong enough to topple buildings over the next 30 years, although almost every area of Japan is in danger, a report showed.
The grim but familiar warning was seen in the National Seismic Hazard Maps for 2017 released by the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion on April 27.
Some city centers in the Pacific coastal areas of the Kanto, Tokai, Kinki and Shikoku regions have probabilities exceeding 80 percent for quakes with an intensity of lower 6 or higher on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in the next three decades, according to the headquarters.
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