Japan’s 2011 tsunami turned out deadlier because a hidden clay layer let the quake rupture all the way to the seafloor, scientists say
The city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, suffered extensive damage from the tsunami, with almost the entirety of the lower area of the city being destroyed | Wikimedia Commons Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological feature beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s devastating 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami became one of the deadliest…