Suruga Bay

[ soo-roo-guh; Japanese soo-roo-gah ]

noun

1. a bay in the Pacific Ocean, on the SE coast of Honshu, Japan.

Example Sentences

The plate boundary sits between Suruga Bay in central Japan, and the Hyuganada Sea in Kyushu to the south.

From BBC

A surprised Yellow Gobi welcomes us into his makeshift home – an abandoned soda can – on the volcanic sandy bottom of Suruga Bay, off the coast of Japan.

From Time

It rises to a height of 12,395 ft. and its southern slopes reach the shore of Suruga Bay.

From Project Gutenberg

The only area that Japan monitors extensively and continuously is off the coast of Suruga Bay southwest of Tokyo, identified as the only place in the country where detection of movement in underlying tectonic plates allows a quake to be forecast, according to Japan’s education ministry.

From BusinessWeek

A 1979 law requires the Japan Meteorological Agency to monitor the area off the coast of Suruga Bay and report signs of an approaching quake to a panel of five geophysicists for review before passing the information to the prime minister.

From BusinessWeek