The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific ... This study challenges long-held beliefs about the ocean’s hadal zone—the area between 3.7 and 6.8 miles below the surface ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that help sea creatures survive in the ocean's deepest reaches.

The government is spending almost a million dollars on researching earthquake and volcanic disaster resilience in ...

Major quakes have frequently struck the area along the Japan Trench and Chishima Trench in the past. That includes the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which was magnitude 9. The notion that a ...

Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is located in an area with 48 percent probability ... massive earthquakes centering in the Chishima Trench, Japan Trench and the Nankai Trough have been occurring at ...

Analyses of sediment cores from the Pacific Ocean's Japan Trench, presented in Nature Communications, uncover evidence of burrowing and feeding activity of these deep-sea dwellers. The Hadal Zone ...

The researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and other institutions said the abundance of microplastics in sediments in that area far exceeds the figures ...

The bottom of the Japan Trench has some of the harshest conditions for life on Earth. But despite this, it is crawling with deep-sea creatures that dig intricate burrows and deep, corkscrew-like ...