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Nankai megathrust earthquakes
Nankai megathrust earthquakes
are great
megathrust earthquakes
that occur along the
Nankai megathrust
– the
fault
under the
Nankai Trough
– which forms the plate interface between the
subducting
Philippine Sea Plate
and the overriding
Amurian Plate
(part of the
Eurasian Plate
), which dips beneath southwestern
Honshu
,
Japan
. The fault is divided into five segments in three zones, which rupture separately or in combination, and depending on location, the resulting earthquakes are subdivided by zone from west to east into
Nankai earthquakes
,
Tonankai earthquakes
, and
Tokai earthquakes
.
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