• Earth's Crustal Plate Flipped Beneath the Mediterranean

  • Oct 2 2024
  • Length: 3 mins
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Earth's Crustal Plate Flipped Beneath the Mediterranean

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  • As the African and Eurasian tectonic plates slowly collide, part of the Earth's crust now lies upside down deep beneath the Mediterranean.Spain frequently experiences unusually deep earthquakes. A new study published in The Seismic Record suggests that these events may be related to an overturned tectonic plate, according to Science Alert on February 29. Since 1954, there have been five major earthquakes in close proximity, occurring at depths greater than 600 km beneath the city of Granada, Spain, according to geologist Daoyuan Sun from the University of Science and Technology of China and Meghan Miller from the Australian National University. Earthquakes at such great depths are often accompanied by strong aftershocks. However, when Sun and Miller analyzed seismic data from a 2010 earthquake in Spain, they found no aftershocks.
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