Figure 1. The region surrounding the 2024 magnitude 7.5 earthquake has been very seismically active in the past 20 years (left panel); quakes are the product of compressional faulting along a series of onshore and offshore thrust faults (right panel). Credit: Data from USGS (left panel), Inoue and Okamura (2010), and JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) (right panel)

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Figure 1. The region surrounding the 2024 magnitude 7.5 earthquake has been very seismically active in the past 20 years (left panel); quakes are the product of compressional faulting along a series of onshore and offshore thrust faults (right panel). Credit: Data from USGS (left panel), Inoue and Okamura (2010), and JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) (right panel)

Figure 1. The region surrounding the 2024 magnitude 7.5 earthquake has been very seismically active in the past 20 years (left panel); quakes are the product of compressional faulting along a series of onshore and offshore thrust faults (right panel). Credit: Data from USGS (left panel), Inoue and Okamura (2010), and JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) (right panel)

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