Two epicenters led to Japan’s violent Noto earthquake on New Year’s Day
The 7.5- magnitude earthquake beneath Japan’s Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, occurred when a ‘dual-initiation mechanism’ applied enough energy from two different locations to break through a fault barrier — an area that locks two sides of a fault in place and absorbs the energy of fault movement, slowing it down or stopping it altogether. …read more
