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November 22, 2009
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Deep tremors, a prelude to earthquakes
(2009-01-29)
Seismologist Mario La Rocca and UW grad student Wendy McCausland placing a seismometer near Sequim in 2004. U.W.
(KPLU) - There's going to be an earthquake this summer under the Olympic Peninsula. But nobody will notice. It's a special type of quake called a "deep tremor." The link between deep tremors and slow earthquakes is explained in this week's issue of the journal Science.
KPLU science and health reporter Keith Seinfeld has more:


For more on this topic and on Friday's early morning earthquake, check out Keith Seinfeld's KPLU blog.
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