Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics

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  Happy Monday, listeners,

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  and happy August for Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

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  Let's kick off the month with a quick roundup of some of the latest news in science.

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  First, we have Andrea Thompson, senior news editor for sustainability at Scientific American,

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  to tell us about last week's earthquake and the resulting tsunami waves.

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  Last Tuesday,

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  a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in a subduction zone where the Pacific plate is plunging below part of the North American plate.

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  And subduction zones are typically where you'd see tsunamis degenerated because you have a big,

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  big shift in the earth that sort of provides a big push to the water.

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  And this area actually did produce a really big tsunami back in 1952 when there was a magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

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  So sort of tsunami alerts, warnings, advisories were released kind of all around the Pacific.

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  So there were some in Japan, some in Russia, Hawaii, all along sort of the North American coastline,

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  you know, from the Aleutians down to Southern California, also in South America.

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