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The earthquakes are caused by slip along the thrust fault that forms the contact between the two plates. These interplate earthquakes are the planet's most powerful, with moment magnitudes (M w) that can exceed 9.0. [1] [2] Since 1900, all earthquakes of magnitude 9.0 or greater have been megathrust earthquakes. [3]
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M w [59] Doublet earthquake rupturing an outer rise normal fault and the megathrust. [60] 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami: 27 February 2010 03:34 (local time) Maule Region, Chile: 550 8.8 M w [61] Including 25 missing. 2010 Chile earthquake: 11 March 2011 14:46 (local time) Tohoku region, Japan: 22,312 9.1 M w [62] Including 2,553 missing.
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Their work will give modelers a sharper view of the possible impacts of a megathrust earthquake there — the term for a quake that occurs in a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is thrust ...
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Red line is the Sagami Trough. The Sagami Trough (相模トラフ, Sagami Torafu) also Sagami Trench, Sagami Megathrust, or Sagami Subduction Zone is a 340-kilometre (210 mi)long trough, which is the surface expression of the convergent plate boundary where the Philippine Sea plate is being subducted under the Okhotsk microplate.