Click here to listen to Boston Museum of Science podcast of Alan Kafka’s description of the March 2011 Japan mega-quake and earthquakes in general. Click on image above to enlarge.
(On the Boston Museum of Science website, click on “Open audio”, then click on the forward arrow.)
Correction: The ocean floor moved upward by about 10 ft, not “a couple of feet” (as it says in the interview).
Earthquakes and Related Matters 