By YU FUJINAMI/ Staff Writer
March 27, 2021 at 15:55 JST
Naoshi Hirata, head of the Earthquake Research Committee within the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion, responds to questions at a March news conference. (Eisuke Sasaki)
The likelihood of a powerful earthquake striking over the next 30 years remains high along Pacific coastal areas of Japan in light of a spate of recent aftershocks triggered by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, scientists say. [Read More]
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