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Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

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par Thanh-Son Pham, ARC DECRA Fellow in Geophysics, Australian National University

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall from glaciers into the sea.

Until now, only a very few have been found in the Antarctic. In a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in Antarctica…

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