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  • n  a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet
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    On March 11, 2011, an enormous plate of the Earth's surface plunged more than 160 feet toward the deep-sea Japan Trench -- about the height of a ten-story building -- releasing so much energy that, two years later, scientists could still measure a nearly half-degree centigrade temperature increase along the Tohoku-Oki fault.
    Feb. 20, 2014 - Foreign Policy Magazine
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    On March 11, 2011, an enormous plate of the Earth's surface plunged more than 160 feet toward the deep-sea Japan Trench -- about the height of a ten-story building -- releasing so much energy that, two years later, scientists could still measure a nearly half-degree centigrade temperature increase along the Tohoku-Oki fault.
    Feb. 20, 2014 - Foreign Relations

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