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Melting ocean mud helps prevent major earthquakes—and may show where quake risk is highest

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-02-26

The largest and most destructive earthquakes on the planet happen in places where two tectonic plates collide. In our new research, published today in Nature Communications, we have produced new models of where and how rocks melt in these collision zones in the deep Earth.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-02-ocean-mud-major-earthquakesand-quake.html