Researchers help solve mystery of clockwork-like earthquake system deep beneath the Pacific
May 14, 2026
May 14, 2026
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, May 14 [Category: Environment] -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution issued the following news release:
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Researchers help solve mystery of clockwork-like earthquake system deep beneath the Pacific
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Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been generating magnitude 6 earthquakes with almost clocklike regularity for at least three decade . . .
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Researchers help solve mystery of clockwork-like earthquake system deep beneath the Pacific
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Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been generating magnitude 6 earthquakes with almost clocklike regularity for at least three decade . . .