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Earthquake Cluster Spurs Questions of Another Quake Soon

04/01/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

By Brooks Baehr – “MANOA (HawaiiNewsNow) – All the huge earthquakes in recent years have sparked debate. Are they related? Are we seeing an unusual cluster of earthquakes and does it mean another is likely to happen soon in the Pacific Basin that could send a tsunami to Hawaii?

‘People have asked,’ said Greg Moore, Chairman of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii. ‘Now that we’ve had this magnitude 9 earthquake in Japan, is that earthquake itself going to cause other big earthquakes to occur say other places around the pacific?’

Moore and Rhett Butler, a geophysicist and seismologist, are earthquake specialists at the UH. They have answered a lot of questions recently about earthquake clusters.”  Read more.

 

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