To better understand how earthquakes nucleate, scientists spy on the Alpine Fault in New Zealand.
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Surface Folds Hint at Magnitude of Slip Along Thrust Faults
The shape of deformed sediments at the surface may allow researchers to estimate the cumulative slip along thrust faults such as the Chelungpu fault in Taiwan.
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Fulton Receives 2014 Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Patrick Fulton received the 2014 Jason Morgan Early Career Award at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, held 15–19 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award is for significant early career contributions in tectonophysics.
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Exploring Earthquakes, Slow Slip, and Triggering
Earthquakes: Nucleation, Triggering, and Relationships With Aseismic Processes; Cargèse, Corsica, France, 3–10 November 2014
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Seismic Stress Modeling Puts Istanbul in the Crosshairs
Twenty years of ground motion observations show that seismic strain is accumulating south of Istanbul.
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Ancient Earthquakes Made an Island Rise and Fall
Observations track elevation changes of an island in the Kodiak Archipelago to past ruptures of the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust fault.
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Measuring Small-scale Changes Along a Fault as Plates Slip
A see-through plastic fault lets researchers directly measure how earthquake stresses affect fault properties.
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Assessing Earthquake Risks in the Pacific Northwest
While megaquakes occasionally occur along the Cascadia margin, smaller but more frequent crustal earthquakes are a more immediate threat, according to a natural hazards expert.