Japan’s recent massive earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded appears to have moved the island by about eight feet, around 2.4 Meters according to the US Geological Survey.
Friday’s 8.9 magnitude quake unleashed a terrifying tsunami that engulfed towns and cities on Japan’s northeastern coast, destroying everything in its path in what Prime Minister Naoto Kan said was an “unprecedented national disaster.”
The quake and its tectonic shift resulted from “thrust faulting” along the boundary of the Pacific and North America plates, according to the USGS.
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