2011 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: Surprising findings about energy distribution over the fault slip and stress accumulation in Japan Trench
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement to be gathered from GPS satellite data), globally distributed broadband seismographic networks, and open-ocean tsunami data, researchers have begun to construct numerous models that describe how the earth moved that day.