Word: seeber
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...other forces within this broad pressure pattern. It is being pinched from the west by the Eurasian plate and from the east by a subdivision of the African plate known as the Apulian. Presumably, strains from these opposing forces caused the Italian quake. Says Florence-born Seismologist Leonardo Seeber, now at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "In Italy we are even worse off, in that we understand very little about the tectonics there...