Tag Archives: Tohuku

A deep origin for the Tohoku earthquake?

So if I’m reading this summary in Eos right, there is a new study suggesting that there was significant deformation of the subducted plate in the lead up to the M9 2011 Tohoku earthquake occurred – enough mass was redistributed to measurably … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geophysics, tectonics

Earthquake location matters, part eleventy

It’s been a month since the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami rattled then swamped northern Honshu, and Japan continues to be rattled by sizeable aftershocks. A magnitude 7.1 shock last Thursday initially set off further tsunami alerts but the rupture turned … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, geohazards, society