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    In seismology, a buried rupture earthquake, or blind earthquake, is an earthquake which does not produce a visible offset in the ground along the fault...
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  • seismic risk. A blind thrust earthquake is quite close, in meaning, to a buried rupture earthquake, if a buried rupture earthquake is not specifically about...
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  • Thumbnail for Surface rupture
    seismology, surface rupture (or ground rupture, or ground displacement) is the visible offset of the ground surface when an earthquake rupture along a fault...
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  • Thumbnail for 1994 Northridge earthquake
    produced both earthquakes run parallel to each other. Several other faults experienced minor rupture during the main shock and other ruptures occurred during...
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    that the earthquake rupture had an area of 141 km (88 mi) x 18 km (11 mi). Slip was mostly concentrated around the northern patches of the rupture, with...
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  • Thumbnail for 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
    they were two of the three largest shocks to occur along the 1906 earthquake's rupture zone since 1914. The ML 5.3 June 1988 and the ML  5.4 August 1989...
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  • Thumbnail for 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
    historical earthquakes have been tentatively assigned to segments of the EAF, such as the 1114 and 1513 Marash earthquakes, both thought to have ruptured the...
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    Geological Survey said all four earthquakes were the result of shallow thrust faulting. The fault plane solution indicate a rupture source striking east–west...
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    reported on 10 September. The earthquake had a focal mechanism indicating oblique-thrust faulting beneath the High Atlas. The rupture occurred on a steep-dipping...
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    It has been hypothesized that a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could trigger a rupture along the San Andreas Fault. In the south...
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