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Algorithms spot millions of California’s tiniest quakes in historical data

Project identifies reams of imperceptible tremors that can help to image fault lines in unprecedented detail.
  1. Robin Andrews
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When it comes to earthquakes, large, destructive ones dominate the headlines. But seismologists have long known that small quakes, which are created by the near-constant slipping of fault lines and often go unnoticed even by scientists, can illuminate crucial details about all kinds of earthquakes, even really powerful ones.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01258-8

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  1. Ross, Z. E., Trugman, D. T., Hauksson, E. & Shearer, P. M. Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw6888 (2019).

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