1.   Last October, the number of these microquakes on the Eurasian plate was about half the normal level.

2.   Slowly, the Philippine plate is being forced under the Eurasian plate.

3.   The Japanese capital is near the Tokai fault, where the Philippine Sea plate slips under the Eurasian plate at the rate of a few centimeters a year.

4.   The ocean floor in front of India slid beneath the Eurasian plate.

5.   The North Anatolian plate is a small slab of crust trapped between the larger Arabian plate and Eurasian plate.

6.   Beneath Turkey, the Eurasian plate sits to the north and moves westward.