The earthquake in Japan has moved the whole of Japan more than 8 feet, or 2.8 meters. The quake ruptured along an area of 250 miles by 100 miles long, as a result of tectonic plates which slipped more than 18 meters reported USGS geophysicist Shengzao Chen.
The quake was so powerful that USGS reported a GPS station moved 8 feet. Still not impressed? The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy, reportedly estimated "the 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the planet on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters)". Is that powerful enough?
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Looking at the Pacific Plate, Japan's on one side of the ring of fire... and California is on the other side. I think we're next.
-Raymond Lim
I think that's good enough reason to be amazed at the awesome (not awesome as in, the teenage "that's so legit awesome") power of mother nature. That really puts how huge this catastrophic event is into geological statistics. But I am thinking less about that and more about all those people who have been left homeless, family-less, starving, or have died. That's what I am thinking about. Fantastic time if you're a geologist or volcanologist or tectonic plate expert...horrible time for everybody else, especially the unfortunate Japanese people. Our prayers are with them.
I think it sucks how japan got hit by that earth quake, but yet I am amazed that a whole nation was able to move 8 ft. this just goes to show that nothing can surpass the power of mother nature.
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