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Scientists Are Solving the Mystery Behind Earthquake That Lasted for 32 Years! – Nature World News
In 1861, the slow quake, which was the longest ever recorded, ended in horror. Experts are frantically searching for modern-day counterparts.
In 1861, the slow quake, which was the longest ever recorded, ended in horror. Experts are frantically searching for modern-day equivalents of this earthquake that lasted for 32 years!
8.5 Mega-Earthquake
In February 1861, a magnitude 8.5 mega-earthquake hit off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, causing the ground to tremble and releasing a wall of water that smashed on adjacent coasts, killing thousands of people.
Long assumed to be a sudden rupture of a previously dormant fault, a severe earthquake…
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