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For years, João Duarte has puzzled over a seemingly boring underwater expanse off the coast of Portugal. In 1969, this site spawned a massive earthquake that rattled the shore and sparked a tsunami.

More than a decade after a powerful quake devastated Haiti in 2010, the region's complex geology has sent the island into yet another spate of deadly convulsions. An intense magnitude 7.2 earthquake ...

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The earth beneath the Pacific Northwest is undergoing a transformation that scientists have never witnessed in real time. Deep below Vancouver Island, a 75-kilometer rupture is slicing through the ...