Sagami Trough

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Sagami Trough is a deep submarine trench off central Japan that marks a major tectonic plate boundary and is associated with significant seismic and tsunami activity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oceanic trench
plate boundary
subduction zone
associatedWith interplate earthquakes
megathrust earthquakes
slow slip events
tsunamis
country Japan
extendsFrom offshore Boso Peninsula
extendsTo near Izu Peninsula
geologicalAge Cenozoic
knownFor high seismic coupling
recurrent great earthquakes
lastMajorEarthquake 1923 Great Kanto earthquake NERFINISHED
lastMajorEarthquakeGenerated destructive tsunami
lastMajorEarthquakeMagnitude approximately 7.9
lastMajorEarthquakeType megathrust earthquake
locatedIn Pacific Ocean
locatedNear Kanto region NERFINISHED
Sagami Bay NERFINISHED
Tokyo NERFINISHED
locatedOffCoastOf Honshu NERFINISHED
central Japan
marksBoundaryBetween Eurasian Plate (in some models) NERFINISHED
Okhotsk Plate NERFINISHED
Philippine Sea Plate NERFINISHED
maximumDepth over 3000 m
monitoredBy Japan Meteorological Agency NERFINISHED
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience NERFINISHED
ocean-bottom seismograph networks
overridingPlate Honshu arc
Okhotsk Plate NERFINISHED
parallelTo Japanese island arc
partOf Japan Trench–Sagami Trough–Nankai Trough plate boundary system NERFINISHED
relatedFeature Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc NERFINISHED
Japan Trench NERFINISHED
Nankai Trough NERFINISHED
riskCategory source of potential future great earthquake near Tokyo
seismicHazardFor Kanto region NERFINISHED
Shizuoka Prefecture NERFINISHED
Tokyo metropolitan area NERFINISHED
studiedIn plate tectonics
seismology
tsunami science
subductingPlate Philippine Sea Plate NERFINISHED
tectonicSetting convergent plate boundary

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Sagami Bay hasFeature Sagami Trough