Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary on ... Japan back in 2011. On Aug 8, a magnitude 7.1 quake in Kyushu led to the Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate ... earthquake that devastated Japan in 2011.

“Japan sits on the boundaries of four tectonic plates ... in recent Japanese history was the 9.1 magnitude Tohoku earthquake in 2011 that triggered a major tsunami and nuclear disaster.

A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan early Jan. 22 without ... is expected to strike along the boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate. But the Jan. 22 temblor ...