Two giant earthquakes in the eastern Indian Ocean have shown geologists that breaking up is easy to do — for tectonic plates, that is. (sciencenews.org)
Douglas Wiens, a geophysicist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the 2012 expedition, also hopes for clues to whether anything more than luck explains the lack of giant earthquakes at the Mariana Trench. (sciencemag.org)
When it was first discovered, many scientists thought Cascadia's fault was incapable of generating giant earthquakes. (discovermagazine.com)