Ultra-Deep Drilling Reveals Mysteries of Devastating Japan Tsunami
Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...
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Plate Tectonics
The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle ...
Earthquake rocks South Asia
A massive 7.7 earthquake originating in Myanmar has collapsed buildings over 600 miles away in Bangkok, Thailand ...
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Stronger Nankai Trough alert likely to cause more confusion
The plate boundary has a history of huge earthquakes ... When the megaquake advisory was issued last week, Central Japan Railway Co. decided to run bullet trains at a slower speed on the Tokaido ...
Myanmar quake: Power of tectonic plates almost impossible to imagine until it's suddenly released
An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.