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  "textContent": "Newly observed negative-phase waveforms in earthquake data have alerted scientists to a previously unrecognized feature of the \"big ones\" to do with tectonic plates slipping by each other: they create a kind of geological 'whiplash' that happens when a rupturing fault movement abruptly stops.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n**Category:** Environment, Science\n\n**Tags:** Kyoto University, Earthquake, nature, Geology, Disasters",
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