![EarthScope Consortium on Twitter: "The Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Okhotsk Plate at the Japan Trench. The rate of convergence is ~8.3 cm/yr. The Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath central and southwest EarthScope Consortium on Twitter: "The Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Okhotsk Plate at the Japan Trench. The rate of convergence is ~8.3 cm/yr. The Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath central and southwest](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyVbrYVXgAAntGn.jpg:large)
EarthScope Consortium on Twitter: "The Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Okhotsk Plate at the Japan Trench. The rate of convergence is ~8.3 cm/yr. The Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath central and southwest
![Map of plate boundaries in and around Japan and Taiwan. Epicentres for... | Download Scientific Diagram Map of plate boundaries in and around Japan and Taiwan. Epicentres for... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240675686/figure/fig1/AS:353117897019392@1461201275798/Map-of-plate-boundaries-in-and-around-Japan-and-Taiwan-Epicentres-for-four-earthquakes.png)
Map of plate boundaries in and around Japan and Taiwan. Epicentres for... | Download Scientific Diagram
![Geological and historical evidence of irregular recurrent earthquakes in Japan | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Geological and historical evidence of irregular recurrent earthquakes in Japan | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/ab7c92e8-a366-49bb-a70a-084cc9576ab0/rsta20140375f01.jpg)