Live Science on MSN
Hidden slippery clay on seafloor may have worsened devastating 2011 tsunami in Japan
A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...
Techno-Science.net on MSN
A record drilling reveals very bad news for Japan
Why did the 2011 earthquake in Japan cause such a massive tsunami? This disaster, one of the deadliest in modern history, had surprised scientists by the way the fault ruptured much closer to ...
New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...
Researchers onboard the deep sea scientific drilling vessel Chikyu sailed to the Japan Trench to drill up to 7,906 metres beneath the seafloor. Credit: JAMSTEC/IODP. A thin, soft and slippery layer of ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results