Creeping Faults May Have Simpler Geometries

A bend in a fault can, for instance, stop an earthquake in its tracks or cause it to hop to another branch and grow larger. “There’s been a lot of work on fault geometry in the past,” said Julian Lozos, a seismologist at California State University, Northridge, who was not involved in the study. “Fault complexities are one of the factors that go into hazard assessments.” -

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