'Monster' Earthquake In Russia Was One That Some Seismologists Were Anticipating - Great Yorkshire Radio

'Monster' Earthquake In Russia Was One That Some Seismologists Were Anticipating - Great Yorkshire Radio

At 8.8 on the magnitude scale, it’s up there with the most powerful ever recorded. It’s also one that some seismologists were anticipating. Wednesday’s quake, in Russia’s Far East, occurred on a fault line running along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench – a scar on the seabed caused by the Pacific tectonic plate diving beneath the North American and Okhotsk plates. Called a subduction zone, it’s one of a series around the Pacific’s notorious “Ring of F…