A slow slip event is a phenomenon discovered in Japan around 2000 in which two plates slowly move in opposite directions at a plate boundary. After the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the National ...

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 ...

A University of Michigan study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes.

Officials recorded a tremor of up to 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity ... The Kanto region is prone to earthquakes, as the boundaries of the tectonic plates underneath it have a complex structure.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said there ... The Aug. 8 earthquake is believed to have been a “plate boundary type” earthquake, in which the gap between the land plate and the subducting ...

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

Along plate boundary faults ... maps out the edge of the locked part of the subduction fault in Japan (S. Miyazaki, Earthquake Research Institute, Japan) and Alaska (D. Christensen, Univ.

In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they ...

Japanese scientists have discovered new significant correlations between solar activity and earthquakes, according to recent ...