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According to a new scientific study, conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, and published in the August 6th issue of the respected scientific journal Nature, the new and young New Zealand tectonic plate is slowly reaching maturity, benefiting from an unexpected source of help â€" water deposits located deep underground. The entire subduction zone, where the Pacific Plate moves underneath the Australian Plate, is constantly “irrigated,†which allows it to mature faster, and to start harboring the potential for extremely powerful earthquakes, similar to those on the American west coast, the team reveals. The “young†subduction zone, called Hikurangi, is termed as such because it was only in the last 20 million years that the Pacific plate began touching the Australian one, and submerging under it. These processes take place at an extremely slow rate, and 20 million years is a very short time in geological terms. The threat of volcanism, earthquakes and ts!
unamis comes from the fact that the Pacific Plate moves under its opponent at a 45-degree inclination, which means that “strike-slip†pressures occur, similar to those in the San Andreas fault line. As the large plates continue their unstoppable threat on the ocean of magma that is our planet's mantle, there ...
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