Big news. The point about subduction that is supposed to engulf Japan sometime in a remote future, and about the plate movement in that zone in general, that had been being considered up to the actual bad breaking * * news, was whether it would bring about a disaster or an even worse cataclysm than we have now, during Japan's position as one of the main economic powerhouses: well...Fast Facts about the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fast-facts-japan
So the plate is pushing into the Japanese island. The plates are being pushed into each other.
Now imagine something like that in California, with the state and the country's economy. Even if it is man-induced...





