Japan sit on the Median Tectonic Fault Line
Japan is near to a fault line.
The fault that caused the 1995 Kobe earthquake was the Nojima fault.
Japan is located near a triple fault line between the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate (the Japan Trench) and the Philippine plate (the Nankai Trough).
tsunami
In Japan.
The earthquake of Japan occured because Japan is on a major fault line.
A normal fault is the result of the downward movement of rock along the fault line.
Reverse Fault
Japan was mostly formed by volcanoes. Apparently it is located on a fault line though.
It happened along the Kego Fault zone.
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