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Underwater Antarctic volcano triggers 85,000 earthquakes

long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes. The swarm, which began in August 2020 and subsided by November of that year, is the strongest earthquake activity ever recorded in the region. The quakes were likely caused by

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