A look beneath the waves 10 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake Mar. 6 06:46 am JST Mar. 6 | 06:46 am JST TOKYO
We’re fast approaching the 10th year since the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the Tohoku region of Tohoku.
The destructive quake which measured a magnitude of 9 – making it the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan (so powerful in fact, a brief quake which hit east Japan last month has been theorized to be an aftershock of the massive earthquake almost 10 years to the day) – not only triggered powerful tsunami waves that led to the explosion of the Fukushima power plants, but also moved the island of Honshu 2.4 meters east, shifted the Earth’s axis and increased the planet’s rotational speed.