Japan Trench - Wikipedia
WEBThe Japan Trench is an oceanic trench part of the Pacific Ring of Fire off northeast Japan. It extends from the Kuril Islands to the northern end of the Izu Islands, and is 8,046 metres (26,398 ft) at its deepest. [1] It links the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench to the north and the Izu–Ogasawara Trench to its south with a length of 800 kilometres ...
Japan Trench | Map, Location, & Depth | Britannica
WEBJapan Trench, deep submarine trench lying east of the Japanese islands, in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean. It is one of a series of depressions stretching south from the Kuril Trench and the Bonin Trench to the Mariana Trench.
Japan's Explosive Geology Explained - Live Science
WEBSep 15, 2022 — The Japan Trench, a subduction zone, is where the Pacific plate beneath the Pacific Ocean dives underneath North American plate beneath Japan. This violent movement, called thrust faulting,...
Japan's 2011 megaquake left a scar at the bottom of the sea.
WEBJan 22, 2024 — It struck a little westward of the Japan Trench, about 18 miles below the seafloor, causing a gargantuan rupture over a 24,000-square-mile area.
Science drill ship sets depth record off Japan - BBC
WEBMay 19, 2021 — The chosen core site in the Japan Trench is very close to the epicentre of the Magnitude 9.1, Tohoku-oki event in 2011, which also produced a tsunami that devastated communities on the...
The 2011 Japan Tsunami Was Caused By Largest Fault Slip Ever Recorded
WEBDec 7, 2013 — Experts calculate the fault—or the boundary between two tectonic plates—in the Japan trench slipped by as much as 164 feet (50 meters). Other similarly large magnitude earthquakes,...
A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench
WEBJan 3, 2023 — The correspondences of the slow earthquake distribution with the crustal structure and geological environment provide insights into the slow-earthquake-genesis in the Japan Trench and imply that highly overpressured fluids are key to understanding the complex slow earthquake distribution.
Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami: How They Happened
WEBMar 11, 2011 — Friday’s biggest quake occurred 80 miles offshore and 15.2 miles underwater in a subduction zone called the Japan Trench, part of that plate boundary. For more than a minute, the crust ruptured,...
The slow earthquake spectrum in the Japan Trench illuminated ... - Science
WEBAug 23, 2019 — The Japan Trench is a subduction zone off the northeast region of the main island of Japan, where the Pacific Plate subducts under the Okhotsk Plate. The 2011 M w 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, which is the largest megathrust earthquake recorded in Japan, ruptured the plate interface of this subduction zone.
Investigating a tsunamigenic megathrust earthquake in the Japan Trench
WEBMar 12, 2021 — The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake occurred in the Japan Trench 10 years ago, where devastating earthquakes and tsunamis have repeatedly resulted from subduction of the Pacific plate. Densely instrumented seismic, geodetic, and tsunami observation networks precisely recorded the event, including seafloor observations.