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Most extreme “rogue wave” ever recorded was unbelievably huge

Most extreme “rogue wave” ever recorded was unbelievably huge

Imagine you’re standing on the deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean. The waves are rough, but it’s the ocean, so you’re used to that feeling. Suddenly, a monstrous wall of water, two or even three times taller than all the other waves, rises up and crashes down – that’s a rogue wave. These surreal behemoths are …

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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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