Seismologist reflects on his firsthand experience of the Japanese earthquake
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 06:30
in Earth & Climate
Eminent seismologist Hiroo Kanamori, Caltech's Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, has been studying the movement of the earth his entire career. On March 11 he was in Tokyo, experiencing firsthand the largest earthquake in the country's recorded history.