Symposium on Neotectonics of the South Fossa Magna and the Northern Margin of the Philippine Sea Plate

Preface

Abstract

A brief summary is given of the symposium on neotectonics and its significance, which was held on August 26, 1983 in Shizuoka on the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Quaternary Research. One of the purposes of the symposium is to discuss neotectonics of the area of the South Fossa Magna including the Izu Peninsula and the Suruga and Sagami Troughs, where the prediction of a future large earthquake has been made.