Years-long 'silent quake' unleashed Fukushima tsunami
Paris (AFP) Jan 6, 2015 - The earthquake that set off the tsunami which caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster was unleashed by a stealthy nine-year buildup of pressure on a plate boundary, scientists said Tuesday. Part of a fault where two mighty plates on the Earth's crust collide east of Japan was being quietly crushed and twisted for nearly a decade, they said. It was this hard to detect activity which c ... more
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