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TIL the magnitude 9.0 great earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March 2011 “was so powerful that its rumble was ‘heard’ from space. Scientists in France and the Netherlands have found that sound waves from the quake reached as far as an orbiting satellite [GOCE], 260 kilometres [161.6 miles] above.”

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