A new seismic phenomenon: seismic waves from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake ricocheted off the Earth’s core and shifted the entirety of Japan 6 millimeters to the east, enough to disrupt GPS measurements.
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A team led by seismologist Sunyoung Park, at the University of Chicago, established in Science magazine in June 2026 that a deep vibration of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake discreetly pushed Japan eastward. The large earthquakes released their energy in a few minutes, and it was believed that the ground was stabilized once the earthquakes had passed. Yet, a seismic wave set back to the center of the globe came back to hit the country thirteen minute…