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Published online 14 October 2009 | Nature 461, 870-872 (2009) | doi:10.1038/461870a
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Seismology: Shaking up earthquake theory
Geological faults are not behaving as scientists once expected. Glennda Chui reports on efforts to forge a new understanding of quake behaviour.
That low rumbling emanating from California is no earthquake. It is the sound of the state's carefully honed earthquake-forecasting process being shaken hard and put back together.
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