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A new way to identify a rare type of earthquake in time to issue lifesaving tsunami warnings

  • Written by Valerie Sahakian, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, University of Oregon
This unusual earthquake type generates an outsized tsunami. camila castillo/Unsplash, CC BY-ND

Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare “tsunami earthquake” occurs. These are mysterious because, while they’re just medium-sized as earthquakes go, they cause disproportionately large and devastating tsunamis....

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