An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku ...

Japan raises probability of megaquake to over 80% in next 30 years - Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent ...

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 ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

Abstract: A detailed structure of the Pacific plate beneath the Kanto district, Japan, was studied by the use of conspicuous SP converted waves that are generated near the upper boundary of the ...

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 ...