Locations known as slip-deficit regions, which could trigger powerful earthquakes, are accumulating underground in the Pacific Ocean off central Japan where the Nankai Trough quake is forecast, research by a team of Japan Coast Guard officers published Tuesday in the British science journal Nature showed.
Slip-deficit regions are places where friction prevents tectonic plates from moving over each other. This causes energy to accumulate and eventually leads to a mega-earthquake.
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