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Climate and intraplate shocks

Nature volume 466, pages 568–569 (2010)Cite this article

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The heartland of the United States lies within a tectonic plate, certain regions of which have experienced large and geologically recent earthquakes. Explanations for those events are still being sought.

Over the past several decades, the earthquake cycle along tectonic-plate boundaries has become increasingly well understood. There is a consensus that geological, geodetic and palaeoseismic data can be combined to establish long-term earthquake probabilities, with a degree of certainty that improves as more and better data become available.

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Figure 1: Consequences of an intraplate earthquake.

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  1. Mark D. Zoback is in the Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. zoback@stanford.edu,

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Zoback, M. Climate and intraplate shocks. Nature 466, 568–569 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466568a

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