As a seismologist, you would have expected the Tohoku earthquake to have a shorter rupture in the fault zone as compared to the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.

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The Tohoku earthquake in 2011 had a rupture length of about 500 km, while the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004 had a rupture length of about 1,300 km, making the latter significantly longer.

As a Seismologist, You Would Have Expected the Tohoku Earthquake