In Northeast Japan (Tohoku), the Pacific plate is subducting northwestward beneath the Okhotsk plate, causing the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. Subduction is a process where one of Earth's tectonic ...

Three-dimensional stress state above and below the plate boundary fault after the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 2023; 601: 117888 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117888 ...

In the Tohoku earthquake, less than 10 percent of the deaths were from shaking damage, according to UNESCO reports. Most of its victims, 15,870 people, drowned in the tsunami. [Related: Japan's ...

Generally, the reason behind the cause is the interaction between the Australian Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the Pacific Plate; Indonesia has had several devastating powerful earthquakes ...

Tomita Fumiaki, Assistant Professor of Tohoku University International Research Institute of Disaster Science, says that memories of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami have been fading.

The paper "Three-dimensional stress state above and below the plate boundary fault after the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake" appeared on 9 November 2022 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, with ...