Expedition Discovers Fault System Underlying Largest Intraplate Earthquake on Record (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Expedition Discovers Fault System Underlying Largest Intraplate Earthquake on Record (1 of 2)

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Reactivated fracture zones ruptured during Wharton Basin earthquakes in 2012. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 4 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.C. Singh at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in Paris, France, and colleagues was titled, "The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone."

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Yanfang Qin, Satish C. Singh

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