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How the Tohoku tsunami transported Japanese marine life to the American coast

Study reveals 2011 tsunami displaced marine life from Japanese coast to American coast via oceanic debris

On March 11 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan. To say that it was powerful would be an understatement, with the then Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan saying that “in the 65 years after