Lin's team was able to collect data for the stress state above the source fault of the Tohoku earthquake, at the boundary between the North American plate and the subducting Pacific plate.

A triple disaster — earth, water and nuclear — struck Japan on March 11, 2011, when the biggest earthquake in its ... but the history of plate tectonics is over 4 billion years old," said ...

In the Tohoku earthquake, the slip amounted to 30 to ... "To our knowledge, it's the thinnest plate boundary on Earth," Rowe says. By contrast, California's San Andreas fault is several kilometers ...

(The plate boundary fault actually extends for hundreds ... have been proposed to explain the unusual behavior of the Tohoku earthquake. "The [drilling project] findings bring us closer to ...

In the Tohoku earthquake, the plates were displaced ... "To our knowledge, it's the thinnest plate boundary on Earth." Another contributing factor was that the clay deposits filling the narrow ...

Researchers have discovered geologic evidence that unusually large earthquakes ... plate boundary near the Boso Peninsula was capable of generating large tsunamis similar in size as the Tohoku ...

The tectonic plates of our planet are moving ... On the 11th March 2011, an underwater earthquake occurred near the coast of the Tohoku area of Japan.The force of the quake displaced a 300 ...