However, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake was the first tremor to be comprehensively recorded by a complex network of seismic instruments plotted across the Japan Trench. The trench area --- a highly ...

The central government projects that a magnitude-9.1 megaquake would cause as many as 199,000 fatalities if one struck late at night in winter in the Japan Trench, part of the Pacific Rim of Fire ...

In the Japan trench bottom ~7500 deep, a 26 m high fault scarp that formed at 2011 Tohoku-oki megaquake was discovered during a manned submersible dive. It lies on the eastern slope of a ~60 m ...

A swarm of tremors is rocking a remote Japanese island chain. Experts say more could be coming. Here's what's behind the ...

The Japan Trench, a vast tectonic ... This study challenges long-held beliefs about the ocean’s hadal zone—the area between 3 ...

Major quakes have frequently struck the area along the Japan Trench and Chishima Trench in the past. That includes the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which was magnitude 9.

Last week, Science released three papers and a perspective, all focused on understanding what happened during the March earthquake that struck Japan. Now officially termed the Tohoku-Oki quake ...

The Japan Trench. Another area of concern is the Japan Trench, stretching from the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture to Chiba Prefecture's Boso Peninsula coast.

In 2011, eastern Japan was hit with a massive magnitude 9 quake -- creating the largest rupture area of any earthquake originating from the Japan Trench. ... (Japan Trench) plate boundaries ...

A towering cliff in the Japan Trench of the Pacific Ocean “is unlike anything that’s been observed by science before. ... causing a gargantuan rupture over a 24,000-square-mile area.

The team drilled three holes in the Japan Trench area to study the rupture zone of the 2011 earthquake, a fault in the ocean floor where two of the Earth's major tectonic plates meet, deep beneath ...