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).
The fault that caused the 1995 Kobe earthquake was the Nojima fault.
San Andreas Fault Line
Elevation can impact how active an earthquake fault is. Studies have shown that the higher in altitude a fault line is, the more active the fault line is.
The Zemolina Fault
New Madrid Fault line
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.
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The earthquake of Japan occured because Japan is on a major fault line.
Japan was mostly formed by volcanoes. Apparently it is located on a fault line though.
The plants are not built on a fault line. The whole of Japan is 'near' a fault line and there is no real difference as to where you build them in Japan. Also the problem was not the fault (earthquake) it was the secondary Tsunami that has done the damage. The problem is that pressure water reactors need to be build by the sea so that the sea can be used as a heat sink.
Because it's very close to the Japan Trench, a fault line caused by the Pacific Plate pushing under the Eurasian Plate.
Japan Trench megathrust fault off the eastern coast of Honshu
That sounds like you are looking for the word "fault" or "fault line".
these are the faults that occur in transmission line: 1. line to line fault 2. line to ground fault-this is the most common fault that occurs in tr. line(75%) 3. double line to ground fault 4. triple line to ground (or) 3 phase fault- this is the most serious and dangerous fault that occurs in transmission line.(but rarely occurs)
New Madrid Fault Line