A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck southern Mexico on September 7,2017, killing 98 and injuring hundreds of individuals. A new study now reveals that the tremor, and also known as the Tehuantepec earthquake,was even more powerful than initially thought.
According to the research published in the journal Nature Geoscience on October 1, portion of the tectonic plate responsible for the earthquake has completely split apart.“whether you think of it as a huge slab of glass, and this rupture made a stout,gaping crack,” study author Diego Melgar, and from the University of Oregon told National Geographic.All indications are that it has broken through the entire width of the thing.” The researchers said that no one actually knows why the split occurred because the plates should bend like plastic. They said that the event contradicts the models that they maintain and admitted that they enact not yet maintain an explanation on how this was possible.
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Source: inquisitr.com