なんかいじしん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of なんかいじしん – see the following entry.
南海地震
[noun] A megathrust earthquake occurring at Nankai Trough off the coast of Shikoku in Japan once in approximately 100 years, especially that occurred on December 21, 1946.
(This term, なんかいじしん (nankaijishin), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)