Seismic Waves Will Move You ... Surf's Up
In 2011 Japan had an earthquake so intense it moved the entire nation of Japan some distance to the east. Yep ... the whole Island nation of Japan moved that much closer to the Japan Trench. That "Trench" is a really deep trench like dealy that if you fell into it ... well ... it's all over. Anyway, the earthquake was of a magnitude 9.0 on the old Richter scale and that is one earth shaking, moving, and tidal wave producing earthquake. Yes there was a tsunami of significant size that killed about 18,000 people. Drowned most likely. So what the deal here is ... the earthquake generated a seismic wave so intense that the wave traveled all the way down to the Earth's core, bounced off our core, and proceeded back up through our creamy nugget center and that shock, bounce, reverb, took 13 minutes for fait accompli and the really scientifically surprising aspect in all of this, that wave moved the entire island nation of Japan six millimeters to the east. Not just part o...