which drifted north and collided with two more plates: the Amurian and Okhotsk plates. At the triple junction rises Mount Fuji. Could some ancient memory be imprinted within the DNA of this place?

The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

and Eurasia plates; in this depiction, the Kamchatka Peninsula is located on the Okhotsk microplate, which is part of the North America plate.” The US National Weather Service’s Pacific ...