Fukushima Earthquake Moved Seafloor Half a Football Field
source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=japan-earthquake-moves-seafloor
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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.
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