The present tectonic framework of southwest Japan, and Japan in general, is dominated by three plate boundaries (Figures 1 and 2). Two of these, the Nankai Trough and the Japan Trench, are relatively straightforward and reflect subduction of the Philippine and Pacific plates, respectively. The ...
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Four primary factors are responsible for Japan's frequent experience of natural hazards. The first factor is the country's location. Japan sits on the boundaries of four tectonic plates, which are constantly moving and colliding. These plate collisions increase the possibility of earthquakes and tsun...
Tectonic Plate Boundaries: Japan is located at the convergent boundary of four major tectonic plates: the Pacific Plate, Philippine Sea Plate, Eurasian Plate, and North American Plate. The subduction zones and plate interactions in this region contribute to frequent seismic activity. Subduction Zones:...
The black solid and dashed lines show the plate boundaries. The thin dashed lines denote depth contours of the upper boundary of the subducting Pacific slab, which is modified from refs56,59. The pink zone shows the Kuril forearc sliver. The red triangles denote active volcanoes. (b) ...
As another example, the biogeography of the Malay Archipelago is highly complex, and faunal boundaries such as the Wallace Line and the Weber Line have been drawn. This complex biogeography is known to have resulted from the location of the archipelago at the junction of four major plates in ...
Anderson (1975) hypothesized that accelerated plate subduction may occur in convergent plate boundaries after a decoupling (large interplate) earthquake and it propagates along trenches by stress diffusion (Bott and Dean, 1973). Observations with the Japanese dense GPS array revealed that silent fault...
aJapan sees a lot of seismic activity because it sits in an area where one tectonic plate—a shard of the earth’s crust—slides under another. At certain points, the two plates get stuck and strain builds up. When the strain overcomes the strength of the rocks, the plates jerk forward...
Early in this century, seismologists noted that most earthquakes are located along zones of high seismicity, which we now identify as plate boundaries. These interplate earthquakes reflect slip between lithospheric plates or stresses set... Wiens,A Douglas - Springer US 被引量: 15发表: 1989年 Sho...
The Japanese Islands are located in a tectonically active region where multiple tectonic plates interact with each other. Interplate megathrust earthquakes have occurred many times along the undersea plate subduction zone, causing serious damage to human society. To assess future hazards, it is important...