Sentences with phrase «even larger quake»

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«Even though a very large quake has already happened this year, the hazard has not vanished,» says Gavin Hayes of the US Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado.

But the release of stress from this latest quake does not relieve the risk of an even larger earthquake expected further north.

That, says Parsons, means that even megaquakes shouldn't trigger large quakes more than a couple of thousand kilometres away.

«Such large faults could even have the potential of a magnitude 8 quake,» said geologist Christopher Sorlien of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who is not a co-author on the new paper.

This regularity could shed light on the workings of tectonic plate boundaries called subduction zones, and it might even turn out to herald a season of heightened risk for larger quakes.

* 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.

«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.

Are the quakes ones that would happen anyway, perhaps even larger, in the future?