Author: University of California – Santa Cruz, EurekAlert

  • Two large earthquakes caused 2009 Samoa-Tonga tsunami disaster

    Scientists studying the massive earthquake that struck the South Pacific on September 29, 2009, have found that it actually involved two great earthquakes: an initial one with magnitude 8.1, which then triggered another magnitude 8 earthquake seconds later on a different fault. The details of this rare event, called a “triggered doublet,” are unlike anything…