Senya Fault

Senya Fault (千屋断層, Sen'ya Dansō) is a shallow fault system in northern Japan which was responsible for a 7.2 Dewa earthquake in 1896, along with surface rupture. It is located near the Senya Hills in to the West of the Ou Backbone Range and east of the Yokote Basin in Akita Prefecture.^[1]

References

↑ http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/BERI/pdf/IHO81202.pdf Univ of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute: High-resolution seismic reﬂection proﬁling across the Senya fault at Hanaoka, northern Honshu, Japan: Data acquisition and processing

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Tectonic plates of East Asia (Eurasian Plate-Pacific Plate Convergence Zone)

Large	Amur Plate Okhotsk Plate Philippine Sea Plate Yangtze Plate

Small	Mariana Plate Okinawa Plate Philippine Mobile Belt

Faults and rift zones	Baikal Rift Zone Fukozu Fault Idosawa Fault Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc Japan Median Tectonic Line Longmenshan Fault Neodani Fault Nojima Fault Northeastern Japan Arc Philippine Fault System Senya Fault Tanna Fault Ulakhan Fault Urasoko fault

Trenches and troughs	Kuril Trench Mariana Trench Japan Izu-Ogasawara Trench Japan Trench Nankai Trough Sagami Trough Suruga Trough Okinawa Trough Ryukyu Trench Philippines Manila Trench Philippine Trench East Luzon Trench

Other	Boso Triple Junction

Coordinates: 39°27′48.42″N 140°36′6.88″E / 39.4634500°N 140.6019111°E / 39.4634500; 140.6019111

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