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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 04:48 UTC

Tag: icequakes

  • Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 01:15 UTC

    Chile's massive 2010 earthquake caused Antarctica glaciers to calve and 'icequakes'

    Scientists found that almost 30% of the stations revealed definitive proof of high-frequency seismic signals as the surface-wave reached Antarctica.

    A massive earthquake that struck Chile in 2010 caused glaciers thousands of miles away in Antarctica to calve, a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience found. Seismic surface waves radiating away from the earthquake’s epicenter traveled some 4,700 kilometers before passing through Antarctica’s ice sheets and causing small tremors, or “icequakes.”