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AmeriScan: January 3, 2005 (4105 words) |
 | But it is possible that the current cluster of earthquakes may have one or more events left in it some clusters within the past 10,000 years have had clusters of up to five events and within a cluster, the average time interval between earthquakes is 300 years. |
| During at least 17 of these events, the entire fault zone appears to have ruptured at once, causing an earthquake around magnitude 9, and major tsunamis. |
| The Asian event happened where the India plate was being subducted beneath the Burma microplate, and it ruptured for the first time since 1833 - along a 600 mile front that is just about the same length as the Cascadia Subduction Zone. |
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