Japan Times article about our recent publication

"Japan study points to high probability of twin earthquakes in Nankai Trough"

japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/01/

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@YoFukushima Fine study! But possibly misleading media's title.

Lay people may understand it as: "high probability of (twin) earthquakes [in the near future] in Nankai Trough."

While your message is rather that: IF one M8+ happens in the Nankai Trough, THEN the probability of a second big one there is quite high (but with large uncertainty). Japan Times article rightly explain this, but their title not really.

@RobinLacassin I agree with you. I guess they have various restrictions such as the length (in addition to the efforts to attract readers to click on the news). I understand (at least in Japan) that the person who determines the title differs from the journalist who wrote the article, and that often causes problems.

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