Listening to the 9.0-magnitude japanese earthquake

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 06:31 in Earth & Climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last year’s 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki, Japan, earthquake was the fourth largest since 1900. However, because of thousands of seismometers in the region and Japan’s willingness to share their measurements with the rest of the world, the Tohoku-Oki quake is the best-recorded earthquake of all-time.

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