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Nature Geoscience 1, 295 - 296 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo196

Subject Category: Seismology

Seismology: Do faults shimmy before they shake?

Michael R. Brudzinski1

  1. Michael R. Brudzinski is in the Department of Geology, Miami University, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA.
    e-mail: brudzimr@muohio.edu


Not only do plate boundary faults generate earthquakes, they also produce slow slip and non-volcanic tremor. New observations on these phenomena provide fresh insights into the conditions that dictate earthquake behaviour.

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