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Published online 27 April 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050425-6
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Little tremors are key to earthquake forecasts
Seismologists unravel California's 'late quake'.
Earthquake experts studying a large tremor that struck California last year think they may have found a good way to forecast the size and location of future earthquakes.
Seismologists had long noted that there is a regular pattern of earthquakes in the region of Parkfield, California, where they strike on average every 22 years.
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