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From: New hypothesis to explain Quaternary forearc deformation and the variety of plate boundary earthquakes along the Suruga–Nankai Trough by oblique subduction of undulations on the Philippine Sea Plate

Fig. 1

Location and topography of the Suruga–Nankai Trough and Southwest Japan. a Location map and plate tectonic setting of the study area. b Tectonic zones of the southwestern Japan arc. MTL, Median Tectonic Line; ISTL, Itoigawa–Shizuoka Tectonic Line. c Shaded topography and bathymetry of Southwest Japan. Red lines are active faults modified from the Active Fault Database of the Geological Survey of Japan (https://gbank.gsj.jp/activefault/). The arrow shows the direction of plate convergence

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