Parkfield segment of San Andreas fault may host occasional large earthquakes

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Parkfield segment of San Andreas fault may host occasional large earthquakes
November 30, 2017
 

Although magnitude 6 earthquakes occur about every 25 years along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault, geophysical data suggest that the seismic slip induced by those magnitude 6 earthquakes alone does not match the long-term slip rates on this part of the San Andreas fault, researchers report November 28 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).

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