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Fig. 1

From: Azimuthal differences and changes in strain rate and stress of the Japanese Islands deduced from geophysical data

Fig. 1

Horizontal velocity vectors for the period from 2008 to 2011 (in February, before the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake). The vectors are transformed to the Eurasian plate reference frame based on ITRF 2014. “PHS” means the Philippine Sea plate and “PAC” does the Pacific plate. The ocean to the east and south of the Japanese Islands is the Pacific Ocean

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