- Japan Median Tectonic Line
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Japan Median Tectonic Line (中央構造線 Chūō Kōzō Sen ), also Median Tectonic Line (MTL), is Japan's longest fault system. It connects with the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line (ISTL), the left blue line on the map, and the Fossa Magna, the pink shaded region.
The MTL begins near Ibaraki Prefecture, runs through central Honshū to near Nagoya, passing through Mikawa Bay, then through the Inland Sea from the Kii Channel and Naruto Strait to Shikoku along the Sadamisaki Peninsula and the Bungo Channel and Hōyo Strait to Kyūshū.
Tectonic plates of East Asia (Eurasian Plate-Pacific Plate Convergence Zone) Large Small Faults and rift zones Baikal Rift Zone · Fukozu Fault · Idosawa Fault · Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line · Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc · Izu Convergence Zone · Japan Median Tectonic Line · Longmenshan Fault · Neodani Fault · Nojima Fault · Northeastern Japan Arc · Philippine Fault System · Senya Fault · Tanna Fault · Ulakhan FaultTrenches and troughs Kuril Trench · Mariana Trench · Japan · Izu-Ogasawara Trench · Japan Trench · Nankai Trough · Sagami Trough · Suruga Trough · Okinawa Trough · Ryukyu Trench · Philippines: · North Luzon Trough · West Luzon Trough · Manila Trench · Philippine Trench · Cotabato Trench · East Luzon Trench · Sulu Trench · Negros Trench · Palawan Trench ·Other Boso Triple JunctionThis tectonics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.