Word: slips
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...this, the last column of the fall term, it is VERY tempting to try and slip something by The Crimson's self-censoring process and into the daily paper...
...slip varies in places along the fault, and so the average of the slip is used in computing the "moment...
...place along the fault where the slip is not zero is considered a ruptured area...
...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...
...ruptured area of a magnitude six quake is 10 kilometers by 10 kilometers. The ruptured area of a magnitude three quake is 10 meters by 10 meters. The same is true for the average slip value...