The video below is a small-scale demonstration of something almost impossibly large: how a megathrust earthquake can suddenly turn the ocean into a weapon. The basic mechanics are frighteningly simple ...
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Japan’s 100-foot tsunami... wave no one could escape
It started with a violent earthquake—but that was only the beginning. Within minutes, a massive tsunami surged toward Japan’s coast, waves reaching over 100 feet high. Entire towns were wiped out in ...
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A 3,400-mile megathrust beneath Asia could produce another magnitude 9 earthquake and a 100-foot tsunami
The Sunda Megathrust stretches roughly 3,400 miles beneath the Indian Ocean and produced the magnitude 9.1 earthquake that ...
The Japan Trench is basically Mount Everest turned upside down. Running offshore of northeastern Japan, the trench marks the boundary where the Pacific Plate dives beneath the plate carrying Japan.
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