Drilling Ship to Probe Fault Zone that Caused Fukushima Quake

After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan’s drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami. It will be the first time that researchers have drilled into an underwater fault soon after a quake.

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Drilling Ship to Probe Fault Zone that Caused Fukushima Quake