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We Are Standing on a Plate That Is Falling Apart, and That's Somehow Good News
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New deep-sea seismic imaging reveals a tectonic plate ripping apart three miles under the Pacific Northwest — and rewrites what we know about Cascadia's coming megaquake and tsunami risk.
Three miles beneath the cold water off Vancouver Island, something enormous is quietly coming undone. A slab of oceanic crust the size of a small country is tearing itself into pieces, dropping five kilometres into the mantle like a shelf giving way under too much weight. It sounds like the setup for a disaster movie. It is, in fact, the opposite: it is one of the more hopeful scientific stories to come out of earthquake science in years, and almost nobody has heard about it.
Slab tearing and segmented subduction termination driven by transform tectonics and five other references
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