A mysterious eastward shift recorded across Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake has finally been explained. Scientists discovered a deep-Earth wave, an ScS wave, traveled to the planet's core and ...
A new study reveals the 2011 Tohoku earthquake triggered an extraordinary event deep within Earth. Seismic energy traveled to the outer core and bounced back, causing a massive, slow-moving slip along ...
Japan’s catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas by as much as five or six millimeters, according to new research.