In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one'

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors in recent weeks.

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables connected to sensors set atop the fault lines where Japan’s earthquakes begin. Completed in June,

A rare slow-motion earthquake discovered off Japan’s coast sheds light on tectonic behavior and may improve tsunami forecasting in vulnerable coastal regions. The post Slow-Motion Earthquake Unzips Japan’s Tsunami Fault appeared first on weather-fox.