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April 25, 2013The chain of calamity now known as Japan’s Triple Disaster began with a massive rupture in the ocean floor.At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, below the seafloor off the country’s northeast coast, the Eurasian and Pacific tectonic plates, which grind against one another at the bottom of the Japan Trench, slipped their grip. It’s a common enough occurrence in what is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. A megathrust fault there runs for some 500 miles undersea and expe
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Oceanus Magazine - Japan's Triple Disaster : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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April 25, 2013The chain of calamity now known as Japan’s Triple Disaster began with a massive rupture in the ocean floor.At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, below the seafloor off the country’s northeast coast, the Eurasian and Pacific tectonic plates, which grind against one another at the bottom of the Japan Trench, slipped their grip. It’s a common enough occurrence in what is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. A megathrust fault there runs for some 500 miles undersea and expe
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