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Mexico earthquake triggers 'desert tsunami' 1,500 miles away in Death Valley cave

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service senior fish biologist Michael Schwimm climbs down into Devils Hole on April 29, 2022, in Nevada's Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

LOS ANGELES — About five minutes after the 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico's southwest coast Monday, typically calm water deep in a Death Valley National Park cave started sloshing against the surrounding limestone rock.

The reverberations from the earthquake more than 1,500 miles away created what experts have called a "desert

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