Rachel Feltman : Happy Monday, listeners! And happy August. For Scientific American ’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the month with a quick roundup of some of the latest news in science.

First, we have Andrea Thompson, senior news editor for sustainability at Scientific American, to tell us about last week’s earthquake and the resulting tsunami waves.

Andrea Thompson: Last Tuesday a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in a subduction zone, where the Pacific plate is plunging below part of the North American plate. And subduction zones are typically where you’d see tsunamis be generated because you have a big shift in the earth that sort of provides a big push to the water. And this area, actually, did produce a rea

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