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Alaska's 'ice-quake' record could shake up climate science
2014-05-02 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: For years, analysts at the Alaska Earthquake Center, while tracking about 100 temblors a day in the most seismically active U.S. state, have dutifully filtered out some of the Earth-shaking events that trip the sensors. The analysts would mark these distinctive readings with the letter, "G," for "glacier." The readings, considered a curious by-product of the effort to track earthquakes, were from calving glaciers. Some registered as high as magnitude 3. Now, Alaska's state seismologist Mike...
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