the more plate boundaries that you have adjacent to or crossing a country like Japan, the more interaction of those plates on which earthquakes occur,” said Robert Butler, professor emeritus of ...

Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary on Japan's Pacific coast. A member of the JMA's expert panel says research has confirmed that a major earthquake can ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake ... and likely to make plates in cupboards rattle.

A Durham scientist is part of an international research team drilling into the seabed off the east coast of Japan to learn ...

What was the cause of the great Tōhoku earthquake of 2011, and how can we better understand geological processes in order to protect coastal infrastructure in the long term – for example, from a ...

While it remains the strongest earthquake recorded in Japan's history and the third-largest globally since 1900, we still don't know what really caused it.

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle ...

A Durham scientist is part of an international research team drilling into the seabed off the east coast of Japan to learn more about the 2011 Tohoku great earthquake. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake was ...