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Nature Geoscience (8 November 2009) | doi:10.1038/ngeo684

Deep creep as a cause for the excess seismicity along the San Jacinto fault

Shimon Wdowinski

Since 1890, the San Jacinto fault in Southern California has been the site of eleven earthquakes of moderate magnitude (6. This activity contrasts sharply with the seismic quiescence of the nearby southern San Andreas fault.