The Powerful Japan Earthquake Poem by Marieta Maglas

Because one Tectonic plate was sliding under the other plate
The powerful Japan earthquake shifted the earth's axis position
Deforming it and that temblor already had caused the earth to rotate faster when Hawaii reached these wave transmissions.

This earthquake may have affected the length of the Earth's days
So, each day may be quite two microseconds shorter than before.
Some parts of this country were moved twelve feet as scientists say,
The tremors sent a monster tsunami which slammed into the shore.

The aftershocks were rapidly continuing without decreasing in frequency
While a rupture near the boundary between those tectonic plates occurred.
Usually, the Pacific plate slowly moves westwards at a low velocity.
This quake was along the Pacific and American plate boundary rupture.

The dissipation of the heat from the mantle was a real source of energy
For the Pacific plate thrusting underneath the Japan and Eurasia plate.
This drive of plate tectonics was possible because of the excess density
Because the lithosphere became dense by cooling until having a solid state.

The boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates is
Part of the 'Ring of Fire' and runs from south of Fiordland
Along the line of the Southern Alps, beneath the wonderful Cook Strait,
Capital of Wellington, and out to sea through the eastern North Island.

A section of the prehistoric supercontinent Gondwana broke away
Eighty million years ago comprising a few slivers of land left to drift
Coalescing into a new continent, Zealandia, under the Southern sun's ray.
Magma heated the continental crust above. It cracked to form a rift.

Due to seismic activity, sea levels temporarily fluctuated looking so glum
Zealandia sank beneath sea level leaving New Zealand, a remnant.
The pressure of opposing tectonic plates caused the Alpine Fault to come.
The Southern Alps rose above the water looking like the moon's crescent.

The earth's surface is recycled through volcanic emission and subduction.
The quake was along a rupture near the boundary between the plates.
The causes are higher levels of carbon dioxide and sometimes eroding,
But, when the rupture is big, it can become a monstrous Hell's Gate.

The Pacific plate had thrust underneath Japan and in a lot,
It dipped beneath the Eurasia plate and the earthquake occurred along
The subduction zone, at the interface between those two tectonic plates.
Two thousand people died because the earthquake was strong.

The Pacific plate moves usually westwards at a very slow velocity.
The boundary between the Pacific and Australian Plate runs broadly
Along New Zealand, where another quake occurred with a strong ferocity,
While the planet is on a one-way warming trend triggered by human activity.

Poem by Marieta Maglas