Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A depression in the floor of the northern Pacific Ocean off northeast Japan. It extends from the Bonin to the Kuril islands and reaches depths of more than 9,000 m (30,000 ft).
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- noun a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet
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Examples
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Tremors are common throughout Japan, and this one was near the Japan Trench, where the Pacific plate, the speediest of the earth's major slabs of crust, dives beneath the islands of Japan in what's called a subduction zone.
Japan: The 'Big One' hit, but not where they thought it would 2011
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The Japan Trench subduction zone has hosted 9 events of magnitude 7 or greater since 1973.
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The Pacific plate thrusts underneath Japan at the Japan Trench, and dips to the west beneath Eurasia.
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Tremors are common throughout Japan, and this one was near the Japan Trench, where the Pacific plate, the speediest of the earth's major slabs of crust, dives beneath the islands of Japan in what's called a subduction zone.
Japan: The 'Big One' hit, but not where they thought it would 2011
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At the Japan Trench, the Pacific plate Is sliding under the Eurasian plate. 2.
Into The Challenger 2008
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And water is percolating up from the different trenches, the Jave Trench, the Japan Trench, and the water is the sea-level water.
Boundaries 2000
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The quake was a megathrust earthquake, where the Pacific plate dove underneath Japan at the Japan Trench.
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The 11 March event occurred close to the Japan Trench, the tectonic plate boundary where the dense rock of the Pacific Ocean floor is being pulled down subducted underneath Japan as it moves westwards towards Eurasia.
BBC News - Home 2011
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A new calculation by American and Japanese scientists concluded that the March 11 event heightened the strain on a number of faults bracketing the ruptured segment of the Japan Trench.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011
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The Japan Trench has seen nine events of magnitude 7 or greater since 1973.
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