Japan's stretch of the Ring of Fire is where the North American, Pacific, Eurasian and Philippine plates come together. Northern Japan is largely on top of the western tip of the North American plate.

When it comes to building a country, you'd be hard-pressed to do it in a more volatile part of the world than Japan. IE 11 is not supported.

How the Japan Megaquake Transformed an Entire Fault Nearly two years after the devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, researchers are one step closer to figuring out the geology of ...

Thursday, April 7 Japan’s northeastern coast was rocked by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake less than a month after being hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami. William & Mary Geology Professor Chuck ...

Ryo Tatsuki, a retired manga artist and the new 'Baba Vanga', had prediction a July 5 volcano eruption in Japan, triggering ...

Starburst megaquake: Japan quake overturns geology. By Ferris Jabr. 19 April 2011 ... THE Tohoku earthquake that rocked Japan last month has sent geologists reeling.

After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese-controlled airspace near disputed islands, China compounded tensions with Japan by bolstering its territorial claims at the United Nations. On ...

The terrible tsunami that followed . Japan’s magnitude 9.1 earthquake in March 2011 was not just caused by the quake alone.. An international study shows that a huge underwater landslide ...

The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu investigated the nature of the seismic fault that shook Japan in 2011, ... And does the same odd geology appear in offshore faults elsewhere, ...

Japan Quake Challenges Geology Theories . Ferris Jabr NewScientist April 20, 2011 AP Photo. THE Tohoku earthquake that rocked Japan last month has sent geologists reeling. As the first analyses of ...

Geology articles for The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan Time frame: 1 March 2024 - 28 February 2025 ...