Electric cables breaks between continents because they move away from each other (researchgate.net)

The abstract of the linked paper talks about soil liquefaction in earthquakes and its effect on distribution networks within a city.

It doesn't appear to have anything to do with long-distance cables or the movement of tectonic plates (except implicitly as a major cause of earthquakes).

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