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    The Japan Trench is an oceanic trench part of the Pacific Ring of Fire off northeast Japan. It extends from the Kuril Islands to the northern end of the...
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    chain to meet the Japan Trench east of Hokkaido. It extends from a triple junction with the Ulakhan Fault and the Aleutian Trench near the Commander...
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    Japan is located in the northwestern Ring of Fire on multiple tectonic plates. East of the Japanese archipelago are three oceanic trenches. The Japan...
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    Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor. They are typically 50 to 100 kilometers (30 to 60 mi) wide and...
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  • a combined rupture of the Japan Trench and Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, or individually the Aleutian Trench or Peru–Chile Trench. Another possible area could...
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    consisting of the Izu Trench (at the north) and the Bonin Trench (at the south, west of the Ogasawara Plateau). It stretches from Japan to the northernmost...
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    for Japan, 416–2013" (map labels in Japanese) to display in visual form the location, disaster time, and date across the islands. The Japan Trench Fast...
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    Ocean, including the Kuril–Kamchatka and Japan Trenches. In October 2008, a team from British and Japanese institutes discovered a shoal of Pseudoliparis...
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    The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest...
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  • hadopelagic zone, is the deepest region of the ocean, lying within oceanic trenches. The hadal zone ranges from around 6 to 11 km (3.7 to 6.8 mi; 20,000 to...
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  • limestone cap. The seamount later. The seamount has been approaching the Japan Trench and a noticeable vertical offset of about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) between...
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    southeastern edge of Japan's Ryukyu Islands in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean, between northeastern Taiwan and southern Japan. The trench has a maximum...
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    Biology in 2003. The first specimen of the species was obtained around the Japan trench and was placed in the National Science Museum in Tokyo. Matsumoto, George...
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    Sea plates occurs at the Japan Trench and Nankai Trough, respectively. The west coast of Honshu, bordering the Sea of Japan, is a north–south trending...
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    region of Honshū, Japan. It is the result of the subduction of the Pacific Plate underneath the Okhotsk Plate at the Japan Trench. The southern end of...
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    each of the three boundaries will be one of three types – a ridge (R), trench (T) or transform fault (F) – and triple junctions can be described according...
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    Takamori, Y. (2016). "Tsunami earthquake can occur elsewhere along the Japan Trench—Historical and geological evidence for the 1677 earthquake and tsunami"...
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    Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's...
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  • The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) was a rapid-response scientific expedition that drilled oceanfloor boreholes through the fault-zone of the...
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    Ring of Fire (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    Peru–Chile Trench Middle America Trench Aleutian Trench Kuril–Kamchatka Trench Japan Trench Ryukyu Trench Izu–Bonin Trench Mariana Trench Yap Trench Philippine...
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    Junction) is a triple junction off the coast of Japan; it is one of two known examples of a trench-trench-trench triple junction on the Earth (the other being...
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  • seafloor. They discover that the land mass of the Japanese islands is collapsing into the Japan Trench. Afterward, Onodera is introduced to Abe Reiko, and...
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  • particularly the Japan Trench. Pseudoliparis belyaevi has been found in the NW Pacific Ocean in the Izu-Ogasawara and Japan Trench. They were caught...
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    sections) forming the Aleutian Trench. The oceanic Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate at the Japan Trench. The oceanic Philippine Sea...
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    in the Japanese island arc system where the volcanic rocks change from tholeiite—calc-alkaline—alkaline with increasing distance from the trench. Several...
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    Cold seep (section Japan)
    in Japan are distributed along plate convergence areas because of the accompanying tectonic activity. Many seeps have been found in the Japan Trench, Nankai...
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    Pacific plate (category Natural history of Japan)
    Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and the Japan Trench. The plate forms a convergent boundary by subducting under the Philippine Sea plate creating the Mariana Trench, has...
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    A trench knife is a combat knife designed to kill or incapacitate an enemy at close quarters, such as in a trench or other confined area. It was developed...
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    junction in the Japan Trench. But this simple view has been successfully challenged by more recent research. During the 1970s, Japan was thought to be...
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  • which was isolated from 6000-m-deep seawater of the Japan Trench on the Hachijo Island in Japan. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de Straininfo of Psychrobacter pacificensis...
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