Deep Earthquakes Get A Little Less Mysterious

Deep earthquakes occur where the oceanic lithosphere, driven by tectonics, plunges under continental plates – examples are off the coasts of the western United States, Russia and Japan. Some new research is a step toward replicating the full power of these earthquakes to learn what sets them off and how they unleash their violence and was made possible only by the construction of a one-of-a-kind X-ray facility that can replicate high-pressure and high-temperature while allowing scientists to peer deep into material to trace the propagation of cracks and shock waves. read more

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