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Study Captures Shallow Tremors to Study Big Quakes (2 of 2)

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Study Captures Shallow Tremors to Study Big Quakes (2 of 2)

image: This image shows deploying an ocean bottom seismometer (OBS). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 15, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Yusuke Yamashita at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Migrating tremor off southern Kyushu as evidence for slow slip of a shallow subduction interface." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Yusuke Yamashita, ERI, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan]


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