The Aomori Bay West Coast Fault Zone (青森湾西岸断層帯, Aomoriwan-seigan Dansō-tai) is an active fault zone on the Tsugaru Peninsula in Aomori Prefecture and its...
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Mount Bonju (category Mountains of Aomori Prefecture)
Mountains, was formed by uplifting caused by the reverse faults of the Aomori Bay West Coast Fault Zone. Local lore claims that some of Shakyamuni Buddha's...
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subduction zone, consisting of eastward-dipping thrust faults. The rifting and subsequent inversion has created a series of faults along the coast that have...
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boreholes through the fault zone of the earthquake and gathered important data about the rupture mechanism and physical properties of the fault that caused the...
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Geography of Japan (section Time zone)
subduction zone consisting of thrust faults that formed from the compression and reactivation of old faults involved in earlier rifting. The subduction zone is...
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investigations of the Nankaido Tsunamis in 1707 and 1854 along the South-west coast of Shikoku" (PDF). Bulletin Earthquake Research Institute (in Japanese)...
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Tocopilla earthquake in northern Chile.[citation needed] The segment of the fault zone which ruptured in this earthquake was estimated to be over 700 km (430 mi)...
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80,000 M74 bombs, all filled with "goop" on the small Japanese city of Aomori. The material was designed to stick to ceilings and other surfaces and burned...
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