Along the Atotsugawa fault system, the P-axis is oriented WNW-ESE, which is consistent with the regional trend in the Chubu region.
Third, Mr Uribe risks aggravating a worrying regional trend.
"You have a general regional trend of depopulation," Leonard Bloomquist, head of the sociology department at Kansas State University, said.
China's military expansion, with a defense budget growing by double digits for the 19th consecutive year, is part of a broader, regional trend.
But in a regional trend, he was deposed in favour of a more shale-sceptic opponent in November, who advanced an alternative geothermal energy-based plan.
The regional trend has its recent roots in Asia's decade-long economic boom in the 1980's and 1990's, when authoritarian rule came under challenge as Western wealth and ideas flooded in.
Now Tripoli seems to be defying another regional trend – set by Syria and emulated by Egypt – of lining up long-serving rulers' sons for succession in a hereditary republic.
But the overall regional trend bucks the positive international one: although homicide rates have fallen sharply in most regions of the world, in Latin America they increased by 12% between 2000 and 2010.
It stands to profit hugely if a long-sought nuclear deal frees the Islamic Republic to realise even a part of its immense potential.The great wall of IsraelIsrael is another place that bucks the regional trend.
If the merger idea goes forward, it would reflect a regional trend that has emerged during the financial crisis, as Western banks pulled out of the region and former Soviet states turned to Moscow for capital and business ties.
He might reply that it was in Colombia's interest to give him more time to complete peace talks with the FARC guerrillas, for which a single four-year term proved too short.Mr Santos's move runs counter to the regional trend.
