The Cabinet Office of Japan announced on the 21st the prediction of the occurrence of a major earthquake along the Pacific coast of Japan, and believed that a maximum magnitude 9.3 earthquake and a nearly 30-meter high tsunami might occur in the future.
According to media reports such as “Japan Economic News”, the Cabinet Office predicted that the largest earthquake of magnitude 9.1 near the Japanese trench along the Pacific coast of Japan may occur in the future, and may occur near the Qiandao trench The largest earthquake of magnitude 9.3; Iwate and Hokkaido may be hit by a tsunami of up to 29.7 meters and 27.9 meters, respectively. In addition, the seas near Aomori Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture may also have a tsunami of up to 26.1 meters and 19 meters, respectively, and the location of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station may have a tsunami of up to 13.7 meters.
The Japanese trench extends from the waters near the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture to the waters near the Sanriku coast in Iwate Prefecture, and the Qiandao Trench extends from the waters near Tokachi City, Hokkaido to the Qiandao Islands Sea area. These two trenches are located in the area where the Pacific plate sinks to the Asian continental plate, and large earthquakes often occur. However, the Cabinet Office believes that it is difficult to speculate the probability of earthquake occurrence.
(Originally titled “Japan predicts the possibility of a huge earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific coast”)