"With a strike-slip event you don't have the same potential hazard for a tsunami as you do with a subduction event because the plates are moving adjacent to each other, " Dutton told OurAmazingPlanet.

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These sorts of events are called strike-slip earthquakes.

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Four years ago, England's main strike bowler Steve Harmison famously sent the first delivery of the series to second slip.

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The visitors had a gilt-edged chance to punish the miss when a slip by Birmingham centre-back Johnson allowed Everton forward Yakubu a strike at goal from 10 yards.

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Damien Johnson headed over before Martin Skrtel's slip let in Paterson but Mucha rushed out to block the forward's strike.

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