Analysis Analysis ‘Monster’ earthquake in Russia was one that some seismologists were anticipating
The quake occurred on a fault line running along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench – a scar on the seabed caused by the Pacific tectonic plate diving beneath the North American and Okhotsk plates.
Image: A kindergarten is damaged by an earthquake in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. Pic: Russian Ministry for Emergencies/Reuters
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