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Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meet

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...
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Lost tectonic plate fragment found at San Andreas–Cascadia junction

A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...
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Scientists detect faults so weak that they slip with minimal stress

Scientists discover ultra-weak faults near the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti that continued to slip for weeks.
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Tiny earthquakes reveal hidden faults beneath Northern California’s coast

Seismologists have discovered hidden faults at the Mendocino Triple Junction by tracking tiny earthquakes using a new ...
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Nature article proposes new way to identify faults that might pose earthquake risk

Daniel Trugman, assistant professor in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL), and Avigyan Chatterjee, doctoral student in the NSL, have published a research article in the journal Nature about how ...