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Earthquakes may trigger or retard quakes on nearby faults, but such relationships are difficult to verify. Observations showing that the Landers earthquake in California shut down aftershocks from a preceding event validate such relationships.

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Figure 1: Surface rupture created during the 1992 Landers earthquake, Mojave Desert, California.

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Freed, A. Casting stress shadows. Nature Geosci 5, 371–372 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1489

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