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Experts say M9 Nankai Trough earthquake would kill hundreds of thousands
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
2012/08/31
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Yoshiaki Kawata, a Kansai University professor who headed one of the government panels, responds to reporters on Aug. 29 as Masaharu Nakagawa, the state minister in charge of disaster management, and Katsuyuki Abe, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, look on. (Nobuhiro Shirai)
An offshore Pacific earthquake of the scale that hit Japan last year would trigger 34-meter tsunami, resulting in at least 323,000 deaths and devastating much of the coastline from Honshu to Kyushu, experts say.
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