A seamount sitting on a subducting tectonic plate off the coast of Japan and plowing its way into Earth's mantle may be at the root of several magnitude 7 earthquakes in the past 40 years. When you ...

A View of debris and mud covered at Tsunami hit Destroyed fishing village in Kojirahama on March 25, 2011, Japan. On 11 March 2011, an earthquake hit Japan with a magnitude of 9.0, the biggest in the ...

TOKYO: Strain accumulating at the boundary between tectonic plates under the Hyuganada Sea off Miyazaki Prefecture has caused earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater five times since 1931, before the ...

The Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the Amurian plate in a northwesterly direction. This study focused on 3 areas: the Bungo Channel, the Tokai region and Boso-Oki. Kawabata, H., Yoshioka, ...

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck coastal Japan on Friday, devastating large swaths of the coast and spawning a powerful tsunami, was caused by the Pacific tectonic plate thrusting underneath ...

Within the next 30 years, a highly destructive Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake is predicted to hit southwest Japan. Understanding long-term slow slip events that occur along the plate interface ...