Japan lifts ‘megaquake’ warning, tells people to ‘go back to normal’

Japan has lifted it warning for a higher than usual risk of a major earthquake one week after a strong tremor on the edge of the Nankai Trough seabed zone caused the government to issue its first “megaquake” advisory.

Citizens can now return to normal life after no abnormalities were observed in seismic activity in the past week at the Nankai Trough, located along Japan’s Pacific coast, Yoshifumi Matsumura, the state minister for disaster management, said on Thursday.