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Of tension in fault line in general? do they come in waves, i guess is my question? >> on smaller scales, along a single fault, that's been observed. for example, in turkey. in the 1990s, a sequence of earthquakes occurred over about a 60-year period along a fault like the san andreas. this earthquake yesterday in northern mexico triggered the aftershocks sequence that you talked about, but also, nearby in southern california there's been a number of small earthquakes mainly magnitude 3 and below that have bit of an increase in activity outside of the aftershock zone that we see from the main ...
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