Japan updates plan to cut estimated Nankai quake deaths by 80%

The Japanese government said Tuesday it has updated its disaster risk plan in the hope of reducing the estimated death toll from a potential megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough by around 80 percent from the current estimate of up to 298,000.The original quake disaster preparedness plan, produced in 2014, also aimed to reduce by 80 percent the number of projected deaths from a massive quake around the trough, which stretches from western to central Japan. But the government has said actions taken since then would only reduce the toll by about 20 percent.The updated plan by the Central D…READ FULL ARTICLE