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Tohoku-Oki Earthquake a Major Stress-Reliever for Crust (4 of 5)

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Tohoku-Oki Earthquake a Major Stress-Reliever for Crust (4 of 5)

image: Conceptual image of sub-seafloor structure at the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) drilling site. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 8, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Weiren Lin at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in Nankoku, Japan, and colleagues was titled, “Stress State in the Largest Displacement Area of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake.” view more 

Credit: [Image courtesy of JAMSTEC/IODP]


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