{"id":209767,"date":"2024-03-02T23:20:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T23:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/earthquakes-hastened-sea-rise-in-pacific-islands-by-sinking-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:20","slug":"earthquakes-hastened-sea-rise-in-pacific-islands-by-sinking-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/earthquakes-hastened-sea-rise-in-pacific-islands-by-sinking-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes hastened sea rise in Pacific islands by sinking the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tutuila, the largest island in the US territory of American Samoa<\/p>\n

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The Samoan Islands are sinking faster after earthquakes caused a deformation in Earth\u2019s mantle beneath the island chain. Projections of sea level rise that fail to account for this additional sinking substantially underestimate the risk of flooding on the islands.<\/p>\n

In 2009, a pair of magnitude-8 earthquakes created a tsunami that killed nearly 200 people and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages on the Samoan Islands and the island of Tonga. The earthquakes also released stress on\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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