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...Many a Slip...
Those hoping for McDonald's in the Square shouldn't hold their breath; stringent area regulations won't even let a Dunkin' Donuts franchise slip through the cracks...
Those hoping for McDonald's in the Square shouldn't hold their breath; stringent area regulations won't even let a Dunkin' Donuts franchise slip through the cracks...
...from establishing frictional contact. Just last week, in a paper published by the science journal Nature, a team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park offered an alternative possibility. Groundwater, they theorized, trapped under high pressure, might also serve to pry faults apart, allowing them to slip with a minimum expenditure of energy...
...Because the quake triggered scores of sympathetic vibrations in volcanic and geothermal regions, some scientists have speculated that the Landers event shook underground magma chambers as though they were big cans of soda. The gas that fizzed forth could, in turn, have forced open a gap that eased the slip of surrounding rock. Whatever the mechanism, experts agree, it has only hastened the fracture of a fault zone that was already stressed up and ready...