Japan's seismologists blinded to March 11 quake: journal

Japan's seismologists blinded to March 11 quake: journal
Paris (AFP) April 13, 2011 - Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 mega-quake, a commentary in a top science journal charged on Wednesday. Writing in the journal Nature, Robert Geller, an American who is professor of seismology at the University of Tokyo, said Japanese government scientists had become fixated by the risk o ... more

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