Figure F1.
Location map of seismic station coverage in the northwest Pacific. At least five
major plates with consuming boundaries interact in the northwest Pacific,
causing subduction, backarc opening, slab collisions, terrane accretion, and
island arc development. Blue and yellow circles = land seismic stations: TJN =
Taejon, South Korea; INU = Inuyama, Japan; ISG = Ishigakijima, Japan; OGS =
Chichijima, Japan; MCSJ = Minami Torishima, Japan; BAG = Baguio, Philippines;
PATS = Pohnpei, Micronesia; JAY = Jayapura, Indonesia; PMG = Port Moresby, Papua
New Guinea. Orange circles = International Ocean Network (ION) seafloor
observatories: JT-1 and JT-2 (Japan Trench), WP-2 (northwest Pacific), and Site
1201 (this site). OHP = Ocean Hemisphere Project, IRIS = Incorporated Research
Institutions for Seismology.