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November 28, 2016

Fault curvature may control where big quakes occur
Eugene OR (SPX) Nov 25, 2016
Major earthquakes - magnitude 8.5 and stronger - occur where faults are mostly flat, say University of Oregon and French geologists. Curvier faults, they report in the journal Science, are less likely to experience earthquakes exceeding that strength. Large earthquakes, known as mega-quakes, were long thought to be possible only at the boundary between fast converging, young tectonic plates until two giant earthquakes - the magnitude 9.4 quake in Indonesia in 2004 and the 9.0 quake in Japan in 201 ... read more

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