Sentence examples for trough off from inspiring English sources

In the Nankai Trough, local high heat flow anomalies accompanying thrust faults were detected at the toe of the prism in the eastern part of the trough (off Tokai) and in the off-Muroto area (Henry et al. 1992; Kawada et al. 2014).

2. Japan Shudders A strange slow-motion earthquake was documented this year in the Nankai Trough, off the southeast coast of Japan, where the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate converge.

According to the new study, released by the panel of seismic experts a week and a half ago, a 9.1-magnitude quake in the Nankai Trough off Japan would trigger intense shaking and tsunamis along a wide stretch of Japan from Tokyo southward, an area many times longer than the Tohoku coastline that was ravaged last year.

(a) Index map showing the location of NanTroSEIZE Site C0008 in the forearc slope of the Nankai Trough off Kii Peninsula, Japan.

The deep seafloor observatory in the Sagami Trough off Japan monitored mudflows caused by a moderate earthquake in real time (Kasaya et al. 2009).

Nankai is the name of the trough off the southwestern Japan (Fig. 1), and Tokai represents the eastern half of the Nankai trough.

Thermal excursions were detected from in situ temperature measurements at IODP Site C0008 in the slope sediments in the forearc slope of the Nankai Trough off Kumano.

Tsuji et al. (2013) conducted reflection seismic surveys seaward of the Nanakai Trough, off the Kii Peninsula, to identify a fault network within the oceanic crust, where some of the faults cross the Moho to the upper mantle.