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Earthquakes Rattling Glaciers, Boosting Sea Level Rise

2015-01-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Glacier Hub: Talk of earthquakes likely calls to mind giant fissures opening up along the earths crust, the trembling of rock, buildings crumbling to their knees and, depending on your age and cast of mind, the love of Superman for Lois Lane. But it does not likely conjure up images of giant tongues of sliding ice or the splash of calving icebergs. And yet it should. Most earthquakes are generated by the friction produced by two bodies of rock rapidly sliding past each other on a fault in the Earths crust,...

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