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Earth’s big breakup

By Stephen Ornes / October 16, 2012
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Powerful motions beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a series of earthquakes near Sumatra

Posted in Earth | Tagged aftershocks, Australia, crust, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Earth's crust, earthquakes, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, getinvolved, Himalayas, India, Indo-Australian plate, Indonesia, Kerry Sieh, Matthias Delescluse, physics, plate tectonics, seismology, Sumatra, tectonic plates

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