Antarctica is being rumbled by hidden earthquakes we never even knew existed
by Peter Dockrill 5 Jun 2018 22:59 PDT
Antarctica seismic activity earthquakes © Eli Duke / Flickr
It was an unprecedented blip out of nowhere in 1982. For the first time, scientists confirmed the first earthquake in Antarctica – but it wouldn't be the last.
As the decades passed, researchers detected eight more seismic events in East Antarctica. And then all hell seemingly broke loose, with sensors picking up 27 earthquakes in 2009 alone, tripling the total number of recorded events ever in just a single year.
But it wasn't a planetary catastrophe or divine wrath that lay behind the ground shaking like nothing known before – merely the scientific method in action.
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