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Can A Big Earthquake Trigger Another One?
National Public Radio | August 23, 2013
...Japanese Tohoku quake. "Even though these megaquakes in 2010 and 2011 were enormously damaging," says Stein {geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey}, "in airline parlance they were still near-misses." They hit about 300 miles from Santiago and Tokyo, and that's lucky. You'd think they'd dodged a bullet. But Stein says new research indicates they may be in more danger now. That's because those quakes and aftershocks actually exported stress to other faults, faults close to Santiago and Tokyo.
And that's bad. More stress could make them slip and cause another big quake near those cities. Says Stein: "So in the greater Tokyo area, the hazard is probably two to three times higher than it was before the 2011 main shock."
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Can A Big Earthquake Trigger Another One?

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