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It wasn't just water: The hidden force inside Japan's 2011 tsunami changed everything
- April 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Mud-rich coastlines could face a greater tsunami risk, at least that may have been the case for the 2011 Tōhoku-oki tsunami that killed more than 19,000 people and led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. According to a new study published in the Journal of the Geological Society, mud may have made the catastrophic ocean waves more destructive than they might otherwise have been.
Originally published at Phys.org