North-west Pacific Topography
by Noaa/science Photo Library
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North-west Pacific Topography
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Noaa/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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North-West Pacific topography. Computer map of the topography of the North-West Pacific Ocean, its coastal regions, and parts of East Asia. The main feature is the dark line running through centre. This is a series of tectonic plate boundaries, marked by deep subduction trenches. It was here, near Japan (upper centre), that a massive offshore earthquake on 11 March 2011 caused a powerful tsunami. This tsunami devastated the coast and cities of north-eastern Japan. This map, using the ETOPO-1 dataset, was produced by the National Geophysical Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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September 27th, 2018
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