Is Japan sinking?

[The Vegan Marxist]

I just read up on this article that goes on about how Japan is possibly sinking due to everything going on over there. Is there any truth to this? The article can be accessed below:

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/03/19/japans-peninsula-moved-53-meters-and-sink-12-meters/

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

I just read up on this article that goes on about how Japan is possibly sinking due to everything going on over there. Is there any truth to this? The article can be accessed below:

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/03/19/japans-peninsula-moved-53-meters-and-sink-12-meters/

It doesn't suggest it is "sinking because of everything on over there", but rather than the earthquake caused major regional earth movement, which is hardly surprising considering. Such often accompany megathrust earthquakes of this magnitude. Website seems a bit sensationalist and fishy in other areas though...

[pastradamus]

Not sure about Japan but I do know tuvalu only has a few years until it is completely destroyed by climate change and sinks into the ocean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu#Climate_change

[chegitz guevara]

Low lying areas are threatened by rising sea levels, although some places are also threatened by ground sinking, like Venice. What the OP is referring to is that the area impacted by the earthquake in Japan subsided a meter.

What happened is that overtime, as the Pacific Plate moved under Asia, the Asian plate "caught" the Pacific plate, and bent with it. If you do this with the fingers of one hand on another, you will notice that your stationary hand's finger bend upwards as the tips begin to move back towards your stationary hand. When the Asian plate snapped back into place, the land that was slowly being pushed up, dropped back down to it's "normal" position.

This is not the same thing that built Japan and caused mountain ranges. That process was the Asian plate being pushed up from underneath by the descending Pacific plate, as well as buckling and folding.