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Understanding "slow-slip" earthquakes on the seafloor -- seismic events that occur over a period of days or weeks -- is giving researchers new insights into undersea earthquakes and the subsequent creation of tsunamis. Through an ocean discovery program scientists are studying the seafloor off the coast of Japan; Two tectonic plates, the Pacific Plate and the Eurasian Plate, meet there. [Source: National Science Foundation]
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