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Earthquakes: Caught in the act

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Title Earthquakes: Caught in the act
Names Braunmiller, Jochen (creator)
Date Issued 2012-05 (iso8601)
Note This is the author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Macmillan Publishers Limited and can be found at: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/index.html.
Abstract Faults break under the stress of plate tectonic forces, but the processes immediately
preceding rupture are enigmatic. Monitoring of a remote oceanic fault that breaks
regularly indicates that rupture is controlled by physical properties of the fault
zone.
Genre Article
Topic Seismology
Identifier Braunmiller, J. (2012). Earthquakes: Caught in the act. Nature Geoscience, 5(5), 307-309. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1463

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