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Science 14 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5771, pp. 203 - 204
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124890
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Perspectives

EARTHQUAKE ANNIVERSARY:
Halfway Through Reid's Cycle and Counting

William L. Ellsworth

100 years ago, San Francisco was hit by a great earthquake. The subsequent simple models of cyclical fault rupture have not yielded useful predictions; long-term study of seismic mechanisms are still required.

The author is at the U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. E-mail: ellsworth{at}usgs.gov

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