The number of earthquakes that occur beneath surging glaciers in Greenland has doubled in the past 4 years, another possible effect of the melting ice sheet there.
Just 2 years ago, scientists reported a newly recognized phenomenon: earthquakes occurring beneath glaciers, probably from sudden slips of those ice masses (SN: 1/3/04, p.
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