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Fault reversal a harbinger of large quakes

Seafloor slippage may have presaged catastrophic 2011 event in Japan.
A man walks with his dog through an area destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami

Rubble replaced many Japanese towns after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which was preceded by subtle changes in geological zones off Japan’s east coast. Credit: Issei Kato/Reuters

Monitoring the direction of seafloor movement in geological zones off the coast of Japan could help seismologists to assess the risk of earthquakes.

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Nature 557, 142 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05051-x

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