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Ikuo Yokoyama’s Harley-Davidson, which was swept to sea during the 2011 Japanese tsunami, in Langford, B.C., in May 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

‘Life is a Miracle,’ but learning from disasters isn’t: Lessons from Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami

Memorials, monuments, preserved school buildings and found objects form part of a memory culture that keeps conversations about risk reduction going.
The recent earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador were large, but were they connected? EPA/Everett Kennedy Brown

Are the Japanese and Ecuador earthquakes related?

When two major earthquakes occur within days of each other thousands of kilometres apart, it can look like they’re connected. But are they? Here’s what the science says.

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