Researchers have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east of Japan's Honshu Island.

The “Great Tohoku Earthquake” that shook Japan, unleashed a tsunami and killed 20,000 people last year wasn’t as unusual as geologists first supposed, according to new geological data ...

Two years later, geologists still puzzle over Tohoku. During the earthquake, the giant offshore fault that ruptured behaved differently near the surface than it did deep below the Earth's crust.

This BSSA special issue reflects the great societal impact and scientific importance of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Published by the Seismological Society of America (SSA), BSSA is the ...

Nevertheless, preparation for rare and extreme events like the Tohoku earthquake remains a great practical challenge. To save as many lives as possible, we need to get better at expecting the ...

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake is the best recorded and most studied giant earthquake, resulting in a remarkable suite of observations. A special issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of ...

“When I first saw it was 8.8, I must admit, I thought, ‘Oh, we’re going back to maybe Japan,’” he said, referring to the 2011 earthquake that triggered a huge tsunami, killing more than 20,000 people ...

The massive Tohoku, Japan, earthquake in 2011 and Sumatra-Andaman superquake in 2004 stunned scientists because neither region was thought to be capable of producing a megathrust earthquake with a ...

New grant funds seismologist Emily Brodsky's research on the devastating Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011.

The 2011 Great Tohoku earthquake was largely unexpected, with many scientists predicting a smaller earthquake and officials largely ignoring the geologists who predicted the quake would be more ...

This Tuesday, March 11, every community in Japan, and every Japanese person wherever living, will solemnly and mournfully observe the three year anniversary of the 2011 great Tohoku earthquake ...