What type of faults would you expect to be responsible for many of the earthquakes in Japan?

Answer 1

Tokyo is sitting on three tectonic plates and when they ground together they created the earthquake in 1923.

Names of the plates:

Eurasian plate,

Philippine sea plate,

Pacific plate.

Answer 2

There were 142,800 recorded deaths. Additionally, there was massive destruction in the Tokyo - Yokohama area from the earthquake and subsequent firestorms, which burned about 381,000 of the more than 694,000 houses that were partially or completely destroyed. Although often known as the Great Tokyo Earthquake (or the Great Tokyo Fire), the damage was apparently most severe at Yokohama. Damage also occurred on the Boso and Izu Peninsulas and on O-shima.

Answer 3

Because the earthquake struck at lunchtime when many people were using fire to cook food the damage and the number of fatalities were augmented due to fires which broke out in numerous locations. The fires spread rapidly due to high winds from a nearby typhoon off the coast of Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, and some developed into firestorms which swept across cities. As a result many people died when their feet got stuck in melting tarmac; however, the single greatest loss of life occurred when approximately 38,000 people packed into an open space at the Rikugun Honjo Hifukusho (Former Army Clothing Depot) in downtown Tokyo were incinerated by a firestorm-induced fire whirl. As the earthquake had caused water mains to break, putting out the fires took nearly two full days until late in the morning of September 3. The fires were the biggest causes of death.

The Emperor and Empress were at Nikko when the earthquake struck the city, and were never in any danger.[10]

Cases of homes being buried or swept away by landslides were particularly frequent in the mountainous areas and hilly coastal areas in westernKanagawa Prefecture. These cases were reported as responsible for the deaths of about 800 people. At the railway station in the village of Nebukawa, west of Odawara, a collapsing mountainside pushed a passing passenger train with over 100 passengers downhill into the sea along with the entire station structure and the village itself. A tsunami reached the coast within minutes in some areas, hitting the coast of Sagami Bay, Boso Peninsula, Izu Islands and the east coast of Izu Peninsula. Tsunami waves up to 10 meters high were recorded. Examples of tsunami casualties include about 100 people killed along Yui-ga-hama beach inKamakura and an estimated 50 people on the Enoshima causeway. Over 570,000 homes were destroyed, leaving an estimated 1.9 million homeless. Some evacuees were transported by ship to as far from Kanto as the port of Kobe in Kansai.[11] The damage is estimated to have exceeded one billion U.S. dollars at present day values. There were 57 aftershocks counted.

Answer 4

Many of the earthquakes in Japan are caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Philippine Sea Plate along the Japan Trench. This movement can result in powerful megathrust earthquakes. Additionally, Japan is situated along the Pacific Ring of Fire, where several tectonic plates meet, leading to frequent seismic activity.

Answer 5

I know that its an Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence... However, faults I don't know....

Answer 6

Probably the movements of the plates. When two plates collided, the effect was an earthquake.

Answer 7

It was the low-range reverse fault