Phase transitions in olivine may be the cause of deep seismic faulting

Earthquakes which occur at depths of several hundred kilometers in the mantle are called “deep-focus earthquakes”. Such earthquakes occasionally result in serious disasters such as the 1994 Bolivian earthquake, which occurred at a depth of 638 km with a magnitude of 8.3.


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Source: Phys.org