Recently, there has been a 9.0 earthquake in Japan followed by a tsunami. The earthquake has made Japan move closer to the United States by twelve ft. Well, the aftershocks moved it too.
Can you imagine the raw power that it would take to move a country? Japan is 145,925 square miles in area. It is larger than Germany. One of the reasons this country moved was because Japan is on a tectonic plate. "With an earthquaje this large you can get these huge ground shifts," said Paul Earle, USGS seismologist.
I hope that the moving of Japan shows you just how powerful, and awful this earthquaje was. Just in case you couldn't fugure it out from the tsunami that followed, and its rating on the richter scale.
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