Using 3D seismic imaging and drilling, researchers found water 2 miles beneath the ocean floor.
Beneath the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of New Zealand, lies a sea's worth of water, locked within the Earth's crust. Researchers believe that this sunken reservoir may play an important role in dampening the strength of earthquakes in the Western Pacific.We tend to think of earthquakes as sudden, often violent events that take place over a matter of seconds. But energy can also be released from the Earth's crusts in slow motion, over a period of weeks or months.
'We can't yet see deep enough to know exactly the effect on the fault, but we can see that the amount of water that's going down here is actually much higher than normal,' lead author, Andrew Gase, previously at the University of Texas and now at Western Washington University, said in a statement.The site where they found the water was formed 125 million years ago, when a vast plume of lava—the size of the United States—erupted from the Earth's surface.
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