(The plate boundary fault actually extends for hundreds of miles, diving down into Earth's mantle beneath Japan ... was slippery and weak during the 2011 earthquake was the team's temperature ...

These observations indicate that episodic slow slip events are probably occurring at the shallow plate boundary in the vicinity of the Nankai Trough. After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake ...

The great 2011 earthquake that caused the tsunami in northeastern Japan is still remembered ... sedimentary formations above and below the plate boundary fault lie in the stress state of normal ...

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake struck offshore of Japan, along a subduction zone where two of Earth's tectonic plates collide. In a subduction zone, one plate slides beneath another into the mantle ...

you have an earthquake.” 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 ...

The death toll from the latest major earthquake to hit Japan is expected to rise even ... "It did not occur at a plate boundary. Instead, forces that had built up away from a boundary, probably ...