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Science 9 January 1987:
Vol. 235. no. 4785, pp. 165 - 166
DOI: 10.1126/science.235.4785.165
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Delving into Faults and Earthquake Behavior

RICHARD A. KERR

Seismologists attending last month's meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco heard much about how the irregularities on faults control their behavior and thus the generation of earthquakes. The identification of small crucial areas of a fault, such as the strong spot where a rupture can begin or the fault jog where it can end, is proving a challenge, but it also offers one of the best hopes of understanding and predicting fault behavior.

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