Analyses of two recent earthquakes of great magnitude show how complex the breaking of the oceanic lithosphere can be, how it is linked to earlier great events and how it triggers seismicity worldwide. See Letters p.240, p.245 & p.250
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Royer, JY. When an oceanic tectonic plate cracks. Nature 490, 183–185 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/490183a
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