Philippine Plate (English)

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Let's look at the Philippine Sea Plate

Top of Part 5

According to the

Plate Tectonics,

the Philippine Sea Plate

is sliding down

under Kyushu Island

from the southeast direction.

We can look at this

in the distribution of hypocenters

of earthquakes.

Plates around Japan

The Philippine Sea Plate seen from the distribution of earthquakes

On Page 4 in Part 4 (4-4),

the distribution of hypocenters of earthquakes in the Kyushu area (click here!)，

and the cross section

in the direction of sliding of the

Philippine Sea Plate (click here!)

are shown.

These figures clearly show

the feature how the plate

is creeping under Kyushu Island.

We made a model

in which we drew (painted)

these hypocenters

on many transparent

and thick acrylic acid resin

plates by spots,

stacked up these plates

and lighted them from the back side.

We could view a surprisingly vivid feature of sl

iding down

of the Philippine Sea Plate.

(See the stereo photo below.)

Stereo Photo of the distribution of hypocenters of
earthquakes in the Kyushu area

Watch the left photo

with your left eye,

and the right with your right eye,

respectively.

(Take a little time.

Don't hurry.)

You may look

at the Philippine Sea Plate

sliding down under

Kyushu Island from its east seashore.