RT Interview with Evgeny Rogozhin - High seismic activity will last 10 years/Stating Japan may sink a little, while the continental plate rises"

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The magnitude-9.0 earthquake in Japan was one of the major events in the natural cycle of the planet's seismic activity, Evgeny Rogozhin, deputy director of the Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences told RT.

RT: You have made some controversial predictions in terms of future earthquakes. What exactly are they and what are they based on?

Evgeny Rogozhin: I think that there is no direct connection between the earthquake in Japan and earthquakes that could happen on our territory. But this latest is one of the major events in the chain of earthquakes that recently happened on the planet. You all remember the earthquake on Sumatra in 2004. It was a major earthquake – magnitude 9.5. It was huge. Major loss of life, tsunami, etc. Then there were a number of other earthquakes – in India, where people also died, in China with the magnitude 8 and finally, in Chile last year – 8.8. And now this earthquake in Japan with a magnitude unheard of before in this country – 9.

As you can see the process is taking place in different places on Earth. What does our country look like in this respect? In the last 15 years or so we've had about 15 major earthquakes in our Far East, so almost every year there was an earthquake.

On the Kuril Islands, on Kamchatka, Sakhalin, in Koryak Okrug. So we had never seen such frequency before. Therefore we can say that we've witnessed a significant increase in seismic activity on Earth in the last 15 years. In the previous years, at least in the 1970s and 1980s there had not been so many major earthquakes. There was a calm period.......

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