Earthquake in Japan

[UtwigMU]

First anniversary today.

[Dr Mordrid]

Helluva question: why was it so small a quake?


NBC Cosmic Log....

Japan's quake still poses puzzles

One year ago, the earthquake that struck Japan literally changed the spin of our planet and the length of our day — but today, the biggest mystery surrounding the event is what didn't happen: Why wasn't the Tohoku earthquake even bigger?

"We really don't know what's going to happen in the future," said Thomas Heaton, director of Caltech's Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory. "And by the way, one of the big questions nobody seems to be talking about is ... why was Tohoku so small? Where's the rest of it? Was this a foreshock? We don't know that. Honestly, it was mostly in the northern part of the [Japan] trench. The southern part of the trench doesn't seem to have gone."
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[UtwigMU]

I watched the documentary on children. I was a child when Chernobil happened and even if I was 1300km away and there was no serious danger here I was very scared of radiation, plants anything nuclear then.