Slippery fault unleashed destructive Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 14:01
in Earth & Climate
For the first time, scientists have measured the frictional heat produced by the fault slip during an earthquake. Their results, published December 5 in Science, show that friction on the fault was remarkably low during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011 and triggered a devastating tsunami.