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Motion in the ocean

Plate Tectonics and earthquake hazard assessment has benefited hugely from the existence of GPS technology. Thanks to the global GPS network, scientists can put receivers on different sides of a fault, measure how rapidly plates are moving far from the fault, and locate areas on the fault that aren’t slipping along. These areas of the fault that aren’t moving with the surrounding plate are technically called “slip-deficit regions” – they’re the part of the fault that is locked, building up stress that will at some point be released as a sudden slip in an earthquake.

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TEARS OF THE SEA If you aren’t already a fan of long walks on the beach, Mudhdhoo Island in the Maldives will make you one. At night when the tides roll in, so do waves of bioluminescent ostracods, crustaceans that are about 1 mm wide. They glow thanks to an internal chemical reaction between an enzyme called a luciferase and a molecule called a luciferin. The luciferase oxidizes the luciferin, and the resulting highly excited molecule emits energy as blue light as it relaxes. The reaction happens as the ostracods are batted around by the surf. It also can act as a defense mechanism when fish swallow up the tiny creatures. The crustaceans’ glow alerts larger predators about the fish’s location, making the fish spit up their would-be lunch and swim away.

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