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Surprising Data from the Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
May 23, 2011 | California Institute of Technology

Caltech researchers publish surprising information about the Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake that occurred offshore of Sendai, Japan on March 11, 2011. No other great earthquake has more data from satellites, seismograph networks and tsunami monitoring stations.


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