Blindsided by Ferocity Unleashed by a Fault

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The wreckage of Taro seen from the top of the town’s tsunami wall. Caption and Photograph courtesy © Mark Edward Harris

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On a map of Japan that shows seismic hazards, the area around the prefecture of Fukushima is colored in green, signifying a fairly low risk, and yellow, denoting a fairly high one.

But since Japan sits on the collision of several tectonic plates, almost all of the country lies in an earthquake-risk zone…

Read Full Article, The New York Times

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