Unusual quake pattern under sea
From Times Wire Reports
Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected the unusual rumble of hundreds of earthquakes off the central coast, some measuring as strong as magnitude 5.
Scientists think the earthquakes could be the result of magma surging underneath the Juan de Fuca Plate, said geophysicist Robert Dziak of Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.
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