Where will the debris from Japan's tsunami drift in the ocean?
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 10:30
in Earth & Climate
The huge tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku earthquake destroyed coastal towns near Sendai in Japan, washing such things as houses and cars into the ocean. Based on a model derived from past trajectories of drifting buoys, projections of where this debris might head over the next five to six years have been made.