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Nankai quake could kill 1,800 in isles: metro team

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Some 1,800 people in the Izu and Ogasawara island chains in the Pacific could be killed, mainly by tsunami, if the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan experiences a major temblor, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government warned May 14.

The metropolitan government said that the worst-case scenario would see as many as 1,774 residents, or about 6.5 percent of the roughly 27,400 inhabitants of the Tokyo-jurisdiction islands, die, assuming a 9-magnitude temblor strikes the trough at midnight in winter. (The Japan Times)

南海トラフ地震、島部で死者1,800人と東京都が推定

本州中部から関西沖に続く海底の溝が巨大地震を引き起こした場合、伊豆諸島と小笠原諸島で津波による多数の死者が出ると予測されている。

The Japan Times ST: May 24, 2013