Evaluation of main earthquakes helps stress discount assumptions

A complete evaluation of 101 main earthquakes across the Pacific ring of fireside between 1990 and 2016 reveals that a lot of the aftershock exercise occurred on the margins of the areas the place the faults slipped quite a bit throughout the primary earthquakes. The findings help the concept the world of huge slip throughout a serious earthquake is unlikely to rupture once more for a considerable time.
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