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Rare “boomerang” earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean for the first time – CBS News
“This was completely opposite to how we expected the earthquake to look before we started to analyze the data,” one scientist said.
For years, scientists have been attempting to track an extremely rare “boomerang” earthquake. Now, they’ve recorded one in the ocean for the first time — and it’s even more bizarre than they expected.
Earthquakes are the result of rocks breaking on a fault, which is a boundary between two plates. A “boomerang” earthquake, also known as a “back-propagating supershear rupture,” means the fracture travels away from the initial crack before returning to it at even faster speeds, scientists said.
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