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Unusual Indian Ocean earthquakes hint at tectonic breakup

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Scientists believe that geological stresses rending the Indo-Australian plate apart may have been the underlying cause of the magnitude-8.6 and magnitude-8.2 earthquakes quakes that stroke the Indian Ocean on 11 April 2012, reports Nature. Matthias Delescluse, a geophysicist at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris said that the latest strong earthquakes prove that the Indo-Australian plate is indeed breaking up, as it has been suspected by seismologists since the 1980's.

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