An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku ...

Similarities between the March 16 earthquake and a temblor that rattled the Tohoku region in February ... also noted that bedrock contained in the Pacific Plate, which lies beneath the Japanese ...

Just days ahead of the anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated ... a “slow-slip event” between the continental plate and the Philippine Sea plate to the east ...