After the most powerful earthquake in national history on March 11, 2011, the territory of Japan continues to move east towards America. In the past year alone, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures in the northeast of the country's main island, Honshu, have shifted 10 cm in some places, the State Geographic Information Administration said Wednesday.
After the magnitude 9 earthquake on March 11, 2011, vast areas of this zone over the past five years have shifted towards America in some places by about 5 meters. The maximum shift was recorded on the Osika Peninsula in Miyagi Prefecture - 6.4 meters. Currently, the eastward drift in the Kanto Plain, where Tokyo is located, has stopped, but continues in the northeast of Honshu Island.
Under the influence of the earthquake in vast areas of northeastern Japan, a subsidence of the soil was also recorded, however, recently its level began to return to its previous state. The amplitude of vertical oscillations, according to the Office, was about 5 cm in just a year. On the same Osika Peninsula, the soil in one of the areas after the earthquake went down a meter, however, over the next five years it rose by 40 cm.
However, experts from the Office of Geographic Information assure that the level of the earth's surface in the affected areas of northeast Japan will fully return to its previous state over the next several decades.
But this is if there are no new disasters …