Signal: increased iceberg quakes
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Greenland iceberg quakes increase three-fold

by on 13. Nov, 2010 in Uncategorized

Two seismologists, Meredith Nettles and Göran Ekström of Columbia University, discovered a few years ago that unusual earthquakes were emanating from the Greenland glaciers as they dumped the extra ice into the sea. “It’s remarkable that an iceberg can do this, but when that loss of ice occurs, it does generate a signal that sets [...]