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Mystery quake that rocked Northern California in 1954 came from ‘eerily quiet’ Cascadia Subduction Zone

Mystery quake that rocked Northern California in 1954 came from ‘eerily quiet’ Cascadia Subduction Zone

A 1954 earthquake that rattled Northern California was likely caused by the infamous Cascadia Subduction Zone, a new study finds. The linking of the magnitude 6.5 quake with this particular seismic zone is important, because the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which stretches from northern California to Vancouver Island in Canada, is not known to give off many small or medium quakes. …

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Leopard Seal Mating Songs Are Eerily Like Our Nursery Rhymes : ScienceAlert

Leopard Seal Mating Songs Are Eerily Like Our Nursery Rhymes : ScienceAlert

Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes pink. The male leopard seal wakes and slips from the ice into the water. There, he’ll spend the night singing underwater amongst the floating ice floes. For the next two months he sings every night. He will sing so loudly, the ice around him vibrates. Each song is a sequence of trills …

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