Dossier
Philippine plate
Coverage of Philippine plate in the Nexus archive.
- Japan’s deadliest fault line shifts, frustrating megaquake forecasts
A Japanese study reveals the locked zone in the Nankai Trough, where tectonic plates meet and stress builds, is not permanent but shifts over time. This complicates efforts to predict megaquakes along the fault line, as the 900km-long Nankai Trough involves the Philippine plate slipping under the Eurasian plate.