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Times they're shallow. and there's two consequences for that. being shallow means that it would be felt more strongly, especially if you are close to the epicenter region. but in addition to that, it also means that the fault rupture that broke during this event could be larger than sometimes other type of event. and it turns out that -- i just got some information from one of my colleagues. his name is jun wang from china. he was actually utilizing some eyes mick station in lalaska in the united states and he did some sort of complicated but very rapid analysis that based on his preliminary r...

The release of stress along one of these principal faults that was the primary earthquake, and then that changed the state of stress around that initial fault rupture and that led to another earthquake nearby on a related fault strand. kari led to another earthquake nearby on a related fault strand.— a related fault strand. karl lang, rofessor a related fault strand. karl lang, professor of _ a related fault strand. karl lang, professor of earth _ a related fault strand. karl lang, professor of earth and _ a related fault strand. karl lang, l professor of earth and atmospheric science at the...

We did find fault surface rupture out of the base on highway 178 where we see images from last night and on highway 178, it continues to the northeast and southwest. this is a somewhat atypical type of earthquake in southern california. we've seen these before on what we call cross faults, faults that are against the san andreas fault system. the san andreas fault is running from northwest to southeast like a big diagonal cut. against it, perpendicular to what are another set of faults that we call cross faults. what is typical is to have bigger earthquakes on faults that are oriented like the...

Federal agencies to evaluate the threat that we have in terms of earthquakes. and it's been doing, i think, a very good job through its lead agency, the national institute of standards and technology. >> thomas, are there places within the united states, be it with the continental 48 or alaska, i wouldn't think so much hawaii, although i'm actually not going to say that, any of the 50 states where we could see a 9.0 earthquake, is that possible based on the fault lines that we have running under our area of the world? >> well, you know, alex, one of our great threats in this country, especiall...