Fukushima Earthquake Moved Seafloor Half a Football Field
The massive shift, laterally and upward, caused the epic March 2011 tsunami
By Mark Fischetti | December 1, 2011
The March 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake that decimated Japan and its Fukushima nuclear reactors with a monster tsunami altered the seafloor off the country?s eastern coast much more than scientists had thought. Analysis released today in the journal Science indicates the ocean bed moved as much as 50 meters laterally and 16 meters vertically. The magnitude 9.0 quake occurred close to the nearby Japan Trench that runs north to south in the Pacific Ocean (dark blue line on the map below).
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...hquake-moves-seafloor&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20111201
The massive shift, laterally and upward, caused the epic March 2011 tsunami
By Mark Fischetti | December 1, 2011
The March 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake that decimated Japan and its Fukushima nuclear reactors with a monster tsunami altered the seafloor off the country?s eastern coast much more than scientists had thought. Analysis released today in the journal Science indicates the ocean bed moved as much as 50 meters laterally and 16 meters vertically. The magnitude 9.0 quake occurred close to the nearby Japan Trench that runs north to south in the Pacific Ocean (dark blue line on the map below).
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...hquake-moves-seafloor&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20111201