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Scientists tracking the Pacific’s most volatile margins are watching a familiar pattern sharpen into something more urgent, as clusters of earthquakes and restless volcanoes hint at shifting stresses ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...

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