A Massive Quake Just Hit Beneath Japan's Most Feared Fault - Here's What Comes Next

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OFF SOUTHEAST MIE PREFECTURE, JAPAN, November 1, 2026 — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck about 350 kilometers beneath the Nankai Trough at 7:15 a.m. Sunday, Japan time, under the same stretch of seafloor that broke in the deadly 1944 Tonankai earthquake. Directly above it, almost no one felt it. The strongest shaking landed in Fukushima, Tochigi and Ibaraki, up to 500 kilometers away.

Japan's government gives the fault above it a 60 to 90 percent or higher chance of a magnitude 8 to 9 megaquake within 30 years, and plans for a worst case of up to 298,000 deaths.

What broke down there, and whether it changes anything for the fault above, is what the coming weeks decide.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:32 A 6.1 quake off southeast Mie
2:24 Felt hardest 300 miles away
4:20 Two plates stacked under Japan
6:07 Why Fukushima felt it most
7:58 The same spot, again and again
10:20 How rock breaks so far down
11:54 Can it wake the fault above
13:12 The fault that broke in 1944
15:27 Sixty to ninety percent in 30 years
17:07 What Japan is planning for
19:10 What would change the picture

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This video is for educational and informational purposes. It draws on public data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, the U.S. Geological Survey and reputable news and science outlets, and details reflect the best available information at the time of publishing. Magnitudes and depths are preliminary and may be revised, and no Japanese agency has issued any Nankai Trough advisory for this event. Follow the Japan Meteorological Agency and your local authorities for the latest information. Any speculation is clearly labeled as such.

IMAGE SOURCES
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org
Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016): https://s2maps.eu

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