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The fallout that wasn’t

By ROBERT PETER GALE AND ERIC LAX BLOOMBERG NEWS

It is two years since Japan’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake, one so powerful it shifted the position of the Earth’s figure axis by as much as 6 inches and moved Honshu, Japan’s main island, 8 feet eastward. The tsunami generated by the earthquake obliterated towns, drowned almost 20,000 people and left more than 300,000 homeless.

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  • Headline: The fallout that wasn’t
  • Publication: Perspective, Pages 75 on 03/17/2013
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