{"id":44778,"date":"2020-08-11T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/discovery-of-mysterious-boomerang-earthquake-shakes-scientists\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:38:00","slug":"discovery-of-mysterious-boomerang-earthquake-shakes-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/discovery-of-mysterious-boomerang-earthquake-shakes-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"#Discovery of mysterious \u2018boomerang earthquake\u2019 shakes scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Discovery of mysterious \u2018boomerang earthquake\u2019 shakes scientists<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 11, 2020 |<\/span> 1:38pm <\/p>\n

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\n The earthshaking findings could change how scientists study tremors.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n It\u2019s a tectonic twofer.<\/p>\n

While earthquakes are known to destroy things once and depart, they\u2019ve never been documented returning for a second helping of havoc \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n

In a seismic new study published in Nature Geoscience<\/a>, an international team of geologists has discovered evidence of a \u201cboomerang earthquake\u201d \u2014 a type of quake that can ricochet \u2014 which rocked the seafloor beneath the Atlantic Ocean in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur new study provides some of the clearest evidence for this enigmatic mechanism occurring in a real fault,\u201d said Stephen Hicks, an earthquake seismologist at the Imperial College London.<\/p>\n

Undersea seismometers detected the tectonic terror traversing the Romanche Fracture Zone, a 560-mile-long fault located app<\/a>roximately halfway between Brazil and Africa, reports National Geographic. The team then analyzed the position of the earthquake\u2019s epicenter and the energy released by each rumbling phase to put the pieces together.<\/p>\n

They found that while ordinary temblors focus their energy in one direction, the 7.1-magnitude monster \u2014 termed a \u201cback-propagating supershear rupture\u201d \u2014 reportedly tore eastward before doubling back and continuing in the opposite direction at an accelerated velocity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a weird sort of configuration to see,\u201d said Hicks of the earth-shattering event.<\/p>\n

Even more terrifying, the tremor travel<\/a>ed at a quake-neck pace of 11,000 mph during the return trip \u2014 so fast that it generated the geologic equivalent of a sonic boom. Or, to put it in simple terms, quick enough to jet from London to New York in 18\u2009\u00bd minutes.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, researchers aren\u2019t entirely sure what caused the earthquake to boomerang. \u201cEven though the fault structure seems simple, the way the earthquake grew was not, and this was completely opposite to how we expected the earthquake to look,\u201d said Hicks.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s an exciting find considering that the seismic occurrence has, up until now, been primarily observed only in theoretical models. \u201cTo the best of my knowledge, this is the first time it has been reported,\u201d geophysicist Yoshihiro Kaneko from GNS Science in New Zealand told National Geographic.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, the groundbreaking findings can help researchers understand how \u201cboomerang earthquakes\u201d could potentially impact populated areas,\u00a0according to Kasey Aderhold, a seismologist with the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first geologic phenomenon to have scientists quaking in their boots. Seismologists have warned that last year\u2019s tremors in Southern California have upped the likelihood of a major San Andreas Fault earthquake.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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