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Earthquakes in that area. >> kate, explain to all of us how japan is situated along three different faults. >> the plate situation is fairly complicated there. the bottom line is it's a subdukz zone where the plate is sliding under japan and this type of situation is where all of the greatest earthquakes around the world occur in subdukz-zoned areas. the largest faults are available and it take a very large fault to produce a very large earthquake. >> how does it compare to the california coastline? >> southern california does not have a subduction zone. the san andreas and related faults, we ...
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