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...slip varies in places along the fault, and so the average of the slip is used in computing the "moment...
Think of a fault as a surface with materials on both sides. During an earthquake, the materials move against each other...
...cumulative damage resulting from thesehidden fault-based earthquakes may surpass that ofa major earthquake on the San Andreas fault,according to Dziewonski...
...most recent quake, which follows a seriesof smaller, hidden-fault based earthquakes inCalifornia, is causing a re-evaluation in thedebate about what type of earthquake would causethe greatest urban damage...
...offset of the fault is called the slip. In a medium-sized earthquake measuring six on the Richter scale, the average slip would be about half a meter...