A New Way to Predict Earthquakes
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icture a fault line, like the San Andreas fault, and you might imagine a perfect slice through rock, like a cut through a cake with a sharp knife. But these geological fractures between blocks of rock in the Earth’s crust and upper mantle are rarely as straightforward or as simple as that. A fault may zigzag back and forth or form a kind of undulating wave, creating bends and gaps between the rock and leaving jagged edges. Or a number of faults may overlap and intersect, creating clusters of fault lines that branch off
