ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Earthquake size increases with rupture length. Whereas rup-tures rarely extend more than 250 km during subduction-zone earthquakes near Mw 8 (refs 6-8), ruptures nearly 1,000 km long produced the largest twentieth-century earthquakes-Mw 9.2 in Alaska and Mw 9.5 in Chile9. We infer possible ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/378371a0
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