Floating seismometers dubbed mermaids mobile earthquake recording in marine areas by independent divers reveal that galapagos volcanoes are fed by a mantle plume reaching 1 900 km deep.
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An earthquake on the ocean floor can produce a tsunami which may grow into a huge wave as it approaches the shore.
A huge undersea earthquake in 2004 triggered a tsunami that engulfed several countries around the indian ocean killing more than 170 000 people in indonesia alone the vast majority in aceh on.
Geological survey reported a 4 7 earthquake 136 miles off the coast of ocean city state geologists said they believe an.
Director of the center for ocean exploration and professor of oceanography at the university of rhode island graduate school of oceanography he is an explorer at large at the national geographic society commissioner for the u s.
An earthquake on the ocean floor can produce a tsunami which may grow into a huge wave as it approaches the shore.
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Commission on ocean policy and a research scholar at the woods hole oceanographic institution.
Just such an event happened tuesday around 6 30 p m.
For years scientists have been attempting to track an extremely rare boomerang earthquake.
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The tsunami traveled through the ocean and hit a remote island causing a lot of damage.
Now they ve recorded one in the ocean for the first time and it s even more bizarre than.
Ballard is founder and president of the ocean exploration trust.
An earthquake on the ocean floor produced a giant wave called a tsunami.