For the “In The News” assignment from a Geography site, an article from the United States Geological Survey website was found to be extremely relevant. The article covers the recent earthquake in Japan that occured last Thursday, April 14th 2016. The earthquake in question had a magnitude of 6.2 and occurred North of Kumamoto, on the island Kyushu in Southwestern Japan. This is considered a moderate/strong earthquake. To put this into context, the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti had a magnitude of 7.0. The United States Geography Survey determined the earthquake to be a result of Strike Slip faulting one either a left-lateral strike faulting to the north-west or a right lateral strike faulting the North-east. Due to the Ryukyu Trench, which marks the boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate meets the Eurasia plates, the faulting actions of this earthquake suggests that it occurred within a crustal fault of the Eurasia plate. Thirteen shallow earthquakes, like the April 14th activity, with a seismic rating of 5.0 or more have occurred in Kyushu in the past century but have only caused injury to both people and the environment, no deaths.7 aftershocks have been located due to this earthquake. This article exhibits the real life effects of plate tectonics that we’ve been studying in class. The strike slip fault that between the continental Eurasia plate and the oceanic Philippine Sea plate exhibited exactly the real life outcomes that can occur presented in the textbook.