Japan isn’t quite where it once was. Scientists say a newly recognized seismic event is to blame

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...

Japan was shifted eastward by a few millimetres, researchers believe

Japan appears to have shifted further east in recent years. The 2011 earthquake in Japan that triggered a tsunami and the ...
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Japan’s 2011 earthquake was so powerful that it shifted the entire country’s location

Japan’s catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas ...
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Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 earthquake

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of ...