As of this week, we have a sister station in Tohoku Japan: THJP. The first images coming out of this station show how seismically active that region is. Of course everyone remembers the Big Tohoku Earthquake. Our colleagues at Tohoku University have been playing an important role in understanding the underground structure, and tectonic processes that shape — and shake — Japan.

Click on this image  to enlarge it. You will see the signals of several local events annotated by Dr. Kentaro Emoto using Japan’s seismic network Hi-net.