Japan is an earthquake prone country. Earthquakes occur in Japan very often causing great damage to public life as well as national properties. Japanese earthquakes take place mainly due to the location of the country. Japan is situated in the 'Ring of Fire' region in the Pacific Ocean and also is situated on the tectonic plates . The movements of these tectonic plates cause Japanese earthquakes and other related devastations caused by volcanic eruption and tsunamis.
Japan is situated on two of the major tectonic plates . The North American tectonic plate and Eurasian tectonic plates meet in the Honshu Island which is one of the major islands in Japan . As a result when these plates moves it causes great turbulences that leads to Japanese earthquakes. Japanese earthquakes are often accompanied by threatening tsunamis and eruption from volcanoes that kill many people in Japan. Many efforts are made and still going on to learn the reason, occurrences and other factors related to Japanese earthquakes.
In almost every city or part of Japan earthquakes have occurred. Previously Japanese people used to believe that Kobe is free from the devastating effects of earthquakes . But a terrifying and devastating earthquake that occurred in the year 1995 showed the Japanese people that not a single place is exempted from the attack of earthquake in Japan .
There are
records of other
major earthquakes in
Japan . In 1923 in Tokyo about 1,00,000 people died in a
major earthquake . In 1952 Hokkaido experienced an 8.2 magnitude attack that killed more than eight thousand people. In the year 1983 another
major earthquake shook the northern part of the Sea of Japan that had a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale. The casualties were however relatively less.
