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Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan/ Ogasawara islands: An extraordinary chain of islands lying to the far south of Tokyo
I smiled, looking at the Shinagawa license plates on my rental car. Yes, I’m still in Tokyo. Sailing 25 hours on the Ogasawaramaru from Takeshiba Pier is the only way to get to Chichijima ...
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Aftershock analysis challenges world's deepest earthquake claim
T he magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record ...
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Claims for the world’s deepest earthquake challenged by new analysis
The Bonin Islands earthquake, which ruptured 1000 kilometers offshore of Japan in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, is one of the deepest and largest earthquakes ever recorded.
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3 Degrees of Japan's Seas
In the balmy south, delicate butterflyfish and huge sand tiger sharks share coral reefs in the Bonin Islands, a collection of 30 or more islands about 500 miles south of Tokyo. Ocean currents are ...