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IPFS News Link • Geology

Stress Change After 2011 Quake

03-01-2013 • arclein

The 11 March 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw9.0) produced the largest slip ever recorded in an earthquake, over 50 meters. Such huge fault movement on the shallow portion of the megathrust boundary came as a surprise to seismologists because this portion of the subduction zone was not thought to be accumulating stress prior to the

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Reported By robert klein

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