Russia’s Earthquake, Wonders of Walking and Surprising Plant Genetics
Science Quickly
Scientific American
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:36.4 | Happy Monday listeners and happy August. |
| 0:39.6 | For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. |
| 0:49.0 | Let's kick off the month with a quick roundup of some of the latest news in science. |
| 0:54.1 | First, we have Andrea Thompson, |
| 0:56.1 | senior news editor for sustainability at Scientific American, to tell us about last week's earthquake |
| 1:01.3 | and the resulting tsunami waves. Last Tuesday, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast |
| 1:08.5 | of Russia's Kentucky Peninsula in a subduction zone where the |
| 1:13.3 | Pacific plate is plunging below part of the North American plate. And subduction zones are |
| 1:18.6 | typically where you'd see tsunamis be generated because you have a big shift in the earth |
| 1:25.2 | that sort of provides a big push to the water. |
| 1:28.2 | And this area actually did produce a really big tsunami back in 1952 when there was a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. |
| 1:36.9 | So sort of tsunami alerts, warnings, advisories were released kind of all around the Pacific. |
| 1:42.1 | So there were some in Japan, some in Russia, |
| 1:45.5 | Hawaii, all along sort of the North American coastline, you know, from the allusions down |
| 1:50.8 | to Southern California, also in South America. And some of this is because we generate warnings |
| 1:57.7 | if there is the likelihood of tsunami waves arriving and there is the possibility |
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