Magnitude-8.7 quake was part of crustal plate breakup
Posted: 26 Sep 2012 10:26 AM PDT
Seismologists have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth’s crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four faults broke in a magnitude-8.7 earthquake that may be the largest of its type ever recorded.![]()
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