Posts Tagged ‘Sumatra Earth quake’

INDIAN OCEAN’S BREAK-UP SHOCKS US

Breaking up is hard to do. Even for Earth’s tectonic plates, separation is studded with sudden releases of pent up stress, such as the twin tremors that rocked the Indian Ocean on April 11, 2012. The magnitude 8.7 and 8.2 earthquakes that struck off the coast of Sumatra that day herald the breakup of the […]