The JFAST Expedition: Getting Inside a Giant Fault
Museum of Arts and Sciences 4182 Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, United StatesThe 2011 Tohoku, Japan earthquake (Mw9.0) produced huge slip (30 to 50 meters) on the shallow portion of the fault close to the toe of the megathrust. The large displacement on this part of the subduction zone was unexpected by seismologists and caused the devastating tsunami that took over 23,000 lives and inflicted massive […]