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In early May of 1998, hydrophones began to record a flurry of small earthquakes near the Siqueiros Transform Fault, an 80-mile fault sandwiched between two volcanic mid-ocean ridges in the Pacific Ocean. The flurry culminated in a magnitude 5.8 quake on May 10. This was followed by another flurry of smaller quakes in an outlying area about 20 kilometers away and another magnitude 5.8 quake only 18 hours after the first one. New findings like this reinvigorate hope that further understanding of foreshocks can provide warning of larger quakes, at least in some places on Earth.[back]
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