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Japan lies over 4 tectonic plates. These are: The North American Plate The Eurasian Plate The Philippine Sea Plate The Pacific Plate.+ 5 others found this useful.Nathaniel Preece.apan lies on the North American, Eurasian and Pacific plates, and is close to the Phillipine plate. Tokyo and Sendai, for example are on the North American plate.
The epicenter of the earthquake is on the offshore shelf, and not in the trench. Earthquakes are caused by breaking and movement of rocks along the faultline where the two plates collide. In cross-section the convergent margin would look something like this: Diagram showing the tectonic plate movement beneath Japan.Note the location of the earthquake is beneath the offshore shelf and not in the trench. The shaking of the sea-floor from the earthquake creates the tsunamis.ote that most of the earthquakes occur around the edge of the Pacific Ocean (and the Pacific Plate). Based on our studies of plate tectonics, we can see why Japan is so prone to earthquakes, and we can also see why the earthquake occurred exactly where it did.