Japan lies over 4 tectonic plates. These are:
The tectonic plates involved in Japan's 2011 earthquake were the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The earthquake resulted from the Pacific Plate subducting beneath the North American Plate along the Japan Trench.
When tectonic plates collide they often form volcanoes or moutains. But when they slide past each other they create earthquakes...like in Haiti or Japan.
They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.
there are 7 huge plates but dozens of smaller plates
Continental plates are tectonic plates. They are tectonic plates upon which continents rest, and they move as do all tectonic plates. Basically, there is no difference, other than the fact that oceanic plates are another type of tectonic plate.
Tectonic plates
the Nazca plate and the South American plate
Yes, the plates have moved.
Because of the tectonic plates
By the tectonic plates slipping.
Because of tectonic plates
By the tectonic plates slipping.
it hit japan because of the tectonic plates and that's it
The Philippine and Eurasian plates created Mount Unzen in Japan.
Tectonic plates shift and cause earthquakes.
they have machines that can detect movement in tectonic plates
Japan is under three tectonic plates