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Scientists Reveal the Hidden Clay Fault That Supercharged Japan’s 131-Foot Tsunami (Video)

Fifteen years after Japan’s 2011 disaster, researchers find an unexpectedly weak clay layer in the Japan Trench that turned a megaquake into a colossal tsunami.

Scientists Reveal the Hidden Clay Fault That Supercharged Japan’s 131-Foot Tsunami (Video)SURFER

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Fifteen years after Japan’s 2011 disaster, researchers find an unexpectedly weak clay layer in the Japan Trench that turned a megaquake into a colossal tsunami.

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