The magnitude of 8.8 degrees off Russia occurred in what is known as the “Megathrust Fault” where the most compact plaque of the Pacific slides under North America’s lightest plate, scientists said. The Pacific Plaque is in motion, making the area of the Kamcatka peninsula off the coast of the Russian Far East, where it was noted, particularly vulnerable to such earthquakes – and larger aftershocks cannot be ruled out, they said. With its focus near the city of Petrovavlovsk-Kamtsacski, it was the largest earthquake after the devastating Tohuku event in 2011, which caused a tsunami and destroyed the Japan Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant. “Kamchatka’s seismic zone is one of the most active downgrade zones around the Pacific Fire Ring, and the Pacific plate is moving west about 80mm a year,” said Roger Mouson, a peer -duty researcher in the British. The facts of downgrade, in which a plate pushes […]
Source: News Beast
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