Jul 11, 2014. 1  Summertime is wedding time, so to commemorate the season, Spotify looked at thousands of wedding-themed playlists to determine the 10 most popular first dance songs. So, not a totally scientific round-up, but the results do seem to be pretty accurate based on our own not-so-scientific assessments.
Surface waves (e.g. Rayleigh waves, Love waves) that produce vertical motion of the ground surface produce the most damage during an earthquake.
The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki quake was the most powerful earthquake known to hit Japan and the fifth-most powerful quake ever recorded. The quake triggered a tsunami that killed thousands of people.hough the entire fault ruptured, or broke apart, during the earthquake, some parts moved in different ways. The deeper part of the fault shifted quickly, while the shallow part, very near the surface, slid slowly.