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Science 17 August 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5840, pp. 905 - 906
DOI: 10.1126/science.1142143
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Perspectives

GEOPHYSICS:
The Need to Study Speed

Shamita Das

Rapid ruptures can cause more earthquake damage than slow ones. Lessons from past events indicate which faults may be most dangerous.

The author is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK. E-mail: das{at}earth.ox.ac.uk

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