This happens far too frequently to be coincidence…. remember last year in Japan and the Philippines? Or the year before in the Caribbean?

Now, another large earthquake has struck beneath the oncoming path of a tropical storm system.

6.3m japan oct 10 2014

The track of Super Typhoon Vongfong is going right over the area in about 1-2 days:

vongfong track
M6.3 – 154km ENE of Hachinohe, Japan 2014-10-11 02:35:46 UTC
Event Time

2014-10-11 02:35:46 UTC

2014-10-11 12:35:46 UTC+10:00 at epicenter

2014-10-10 21:35:46 UTC-05:00 system time

Location

40.986°N 143.216°E depth=13.5km (8.4mi)
Nearby Cities

154km (96mi) ENE of Hachinohe, Japan

160km (99mi) ENE of Misawa, Japan

165km (103mi) SSE of Shizunai, Japan

171km (106mi) E of Mutsu, Japan

663km (412mi) NNE of Tokyo, Japan

From the USGS:

“Seismotectonics of Japan and Vicinity

Japan and the surrounding islands straddle four major tectonic plates: Pacific plate; North America plate; Eurasia plate; and Philippine Sea plate. The Pacific plate is subducted into the mantle, beneath Hokkaido and northern Honshu, along the eastern margin of the Okhotsk microplate, a proposed subdivision of the North America plate. Farther south, the Pacific plate is subducted beneath volcanic islands along the eastern margin of the Philippine Sea plate. This 2,200 km-long zone of subduction of the Pacific plate is responsible for the creation of the deep offshore Ogasawara and Japan trenches as well as parallel chains of islands and volcanoes, typical of Circumpacific island arcs. Similarly, the Philippine Sea plate is itself subducting under the Eurasia plate along a zone, extending from Taiwan to southern Honshu that comprises the Ryukyu Islands and the Nansei-Shoto trench.

Subduction zones at the Japanese island arcs are geologically complex and produce numerous earthquakes from multiple sources. Deformation of the overriding plates generates shallow crustal earthquakes, whereas slip at the interface of the plates generates interplate earthquakes that extend from near the base of the trench to depths of 40 to 60 km. At greater depths, Japanese arc earthquakes occur within the subducting Pacific and Philippine Sea plates and can reach depths of nearly 700 km. Since 1900, three great earthquakes occurred off Japan and three north of Hokkaido. They are the M8.4 1933 Sanriku-oki earthquake, the M8.3 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake, the M9.0 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the M8.4 1958 Etorofu earthquake, the M8.5 1963 Kuril earthquake, and the M8.3 1994 Shikotan earthquake.”