Columbia University: Study Suggests Shifts in Deep Geologic Structure May Have Magnified Great 2011 Japan Tsunami
March 17, 2020
March 17, 2020
NEW YORK, March 17 [TNSscientificresearch] -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news:
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan--the most powerful quake to hit the country in modern times, and the fourth most powerful in the world since modern record keeping began. It generated a series of tsunami waves that reached an extraordinary 125 to 130 feet high in places. The waves devastated much of Japan's popul . . .
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan--the most powerful quake to hit the country in modern times, and the fourth most powerful in the world since modern record keeping began. It generated a series of tsunami waves that reached an extraordinary 125 to 130 feet high in places. The waves devastated much of Japan's popul . . .