The crew explored waters off the San Diego coast to protect local cities and infrastructure from underwater threats
About 70% of the earth’s surface is ocean, yet only 5% of the world’s oceans have been explored. One matter overlooked by the general public and scientific circles alike is how shifting faults and landslides thousands of feet under the water can lead to earthquakes and tsunamis on land.
This is what San Diego State University associate professor Jillian Maloney and her team of researchers spent 12 days at sea investigating. They set out to discover how often underwater earthquakes and landslides may happen, how large they could be, how likely they are to generate tsunamis, and what the overall impact these natural disasters could have on seaside localities.
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