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A comment on 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a tsunami.

Re:8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to gen... by D4M14N on Friday May 24, 2013 @03:23AM (#5761616)
Is a depth of 385 miles normal? That would put it deep in the earths mantle wouldnt it?
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Re:8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to gen... by glurgh on Friday May 24, 2013 @03:44AM (#5761659)
It's very deep - seems to have something to do with subduction, take a look at

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h4jh#...

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadati%E2%80%93Benioff_zone

Looks like they can be felt very far but are less dangerous.

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