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.

Japan's Tohoku earthquake in 2011 was felt by the GOCE satellite. Earthquakes rattle the ground, vibrating Earth's surface like the skin of a drum and sending low-frequency sound waves into the ...

Japan's terrifying 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake unleashed about 1,000 years of pent-up pressure that was stored between two colliding tectonic plates. During the Tohoku earthquake, northeast Japan ...

Finding faults deeply stressful First investigation of stress state below plate boundary fault of Tohoku earthquake Date: December 9, 2022 Source: Kyoto University Summary: Evidence that a ...

The deadly Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan March 11, 2011 have changed the way scientists and leaders plan for disasters.

Marcia Bjornerud examines the effects of Japan’s 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident on how geologists think about disastrous events.