At the very moment I sat down to write this, right when I put my fingers on the keyboard to begin to type, my body tensed up as I heard the cupboard begin to rattle. “Oh, no.” But no sooner had I thought this then the shaking had stopped. All I could hear was the […]
Six years have passed since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake but earthquakes triggered by movements in the Earth’s crust are still occurring in the Tohoku and Kanto areas. Most earthquakes are caused by normal faults, which occur when the rock on one side of the fault is pulled down relative to the other. Experts […]
The following was originally published as part of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals‘s “Speaking Out” series. It is republished with their permission. The fifth ocean memorial service for victims in the Great East Japan Earthquake took place in Kesennuma Bay of Miyagi Prefecture in the spring of last year. Kesennuma suffered severe damage […]