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Antarctica Doomsday Glacier Rattled by Hundreds of Iceberg Earthquakes

南极末日冰川被数百次冰山地震震动

Satellite image shows Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier with lots of blocks of ice broken off and now floating in the ocean nearby.

Satellite image shows Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier with lots of blocks of ice broken off and now floating in the ocean nearby.

2026-01-07  776  晦涩
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Until now, only a very few have been found in the Antarctic. In a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in Antarctica between 2010 and 2023, mostly at the ocean end of the Thwaites Glacier – the so-called Doomsday Glacier that could send sea levels rising rapidly if it were to collapse.

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