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Claim: Earth’s deepest recorded earthquake was not in Japan

Claim: Earth’s deepest recorded earthquake was not in Japan

For almost ten years, an aftershock linked to the May 30, 2015 magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake was touted as the deepest tremor ever measured, reported at 467 miles beneath the Pacific. That label has now been stripped away by a fresh look at the data that places the aftershock, and our understanding of deep seismicity, on firmer ground. …

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