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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.
Friday's temblor struck 231 miles (373 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo and 80 miles (130 km) east of Sendai, Honshu, in the Pacific Ocean near the Japan Trench. The Japan Trench, a subduction zone, is where the Pacific plate beneath the Pacific Ocean dives underneath North American plate beneath Japan.This violent movement, called thrust faulting, forced the North American plate upward in this latest quake.ore recently, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Kobe in 1995, killing more than 6,000 people. Japan has such a large potential for earthquakes and disaster because the nation sits atop four huge slabs of the Earth's crust, called tectonic plates.