Monday, July 18, 2011

Love for a non-historic earthquake mechanism

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The city of Driggs is roughly 20 miles west of the Teton fault. While this fault has been seismically quiet in recorded historic time, geologists believe it could generate a magnitude 7.2 earthquake at some point in the future.

Ah, some love for a fault zone that might only be a 1 in 500 sparker.  Here in Toronto, if nothing has happened in the past 20 years, it doesn't exist!

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