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Nature 424, 660-663 (7 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/nature01864;

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Unusually large earthquakes inferred from tsunami deposits along the Kuril trench

The Pacific plate converges with northeastern Eurasia at a rate of 8–9|[thinsp]|m per century along the Kamchatka, Kuril and Japan trenches. Along the southern Kuril trench, which faces the Japanese island of Hokkaido, this fast subduction has recurrently generated earthquakes with magnitudes of up to |[sim]|8 over the past two centuries.

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