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What is the tectonic setting of the large 2011 tohuku earthquake in japan?.

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What tectonic plates caused the 2011 Japan earthquake? In Northeast Japan (Tohoku), the Pacific plate is subducting northwestward beneath the Okhotsk plate, causing the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. Subduction is a process where one of Earth's tectonic plates sinks under another.

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