Ocean Slab News Today

Earthquake. >> yes. normally -- im having a little trouble with my ear piece. normally the situation where you have an earthquake, two tectonic plates come together in a collision, which is some of the run of the mill normal earthquake, which releases all the energy that causes the destruction. that didnt happen here. it was just one tectonic plate which ruptured, which is unusual. >> normally a great earthquake, it is the interface between the two plates sliding that creates an earthquake. this...

>> normally -- im having trouble with my earpiece so bear with me. normally the situation when you have an earthquake when two plates come together in sort of a collision, which is sort of the run of the mill normal earthquake which releases all the energy and causes all the destruction, that didnt happen here. it was just one ta tonic plate which ruptured? >> right. its the interface between the two plates sliding that creates the earthquake. this is actually the lower plate, that ocean slab be...