«If it's been a long time since a large earthquake, then,
even after another quake happens, the fault's «memory» sometimes isn't wiped out, so there's still a good chance of having another,» said Seth Stein, the study's senior author and the William Deering Professor of Geological Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
Not exact matches
After comparing central U.S. earthquakes with tremors in geologically similar parts of the world — and noting that induced
quakes, so far, tended to rupture either smaller faults or smaller sections of faults than West Coast
quakes — they settled on an upper limit of magnitude 6, which can damage
even well - built structures.
* Update, 3 April, 11:05 a.m.: On the
evening of 2 April,
after this story was posted, two more large
quakes occurred within the Iquique seismic gap.
After the
quake, the work seems
even more important.
Rubble from damaged buildings and other structures remained on the streets
even when this photo was taken, nearly a year
after the
quake on Dec. 30, 2010.
When the grid went offline
after the
quake,
even in the capital the only public lights that stayed on were the new solar street lamps.