Minutes after the massive 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people, "a previously unrecognised" phenomenon may have caused the whole country to shift further eastwards, a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to "slip," in some areas by as ...

A seismic wave from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake travelled 2,900 km deep to the boundary between Earth's mantle and outer core before bouncing back and triggering a permanent shift in parts of Japan.

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east ...

In March 2011, the magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. Violent ground shaking lasted for about six minutes and triggered a massive tsunami, ultimately ...

A mysterious eastward shift recorded across Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake has finally been explained. Scientists discovered a deep-Earth wave, an ScS wave, traveled to the planet's core and ...