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Extension across Tempe Terra, Mars, from measurements of fault scarp widths and deformed craters

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A 100-year average recurrence interval for the San Andreas fault at Wrightwood, California

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A speculative history of the San Andreas fault in the central Transverse Ranges, California

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Thermal waters along the Konocti Bay fault zone, Lake County, California: a re-evaluation

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Oligocene and Miocene paleogeography of central California and displacement along the San Andreas fault

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Hydrologic effects on water level changes associated with episodic fault creep near Parkfield, California

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Two people standing in a shallow trench a few feet wide and deep in a forested landscape. They are examining the trench wall

Geologists examining a paleoseismic trench across the Sawtooth fault, Idaho
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Repeated coseismic uplift of coastal lagoons above the Patton Bay Splay Fault System, Montague Island, Alaska, USA

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Seismic Reflection Profiles Imaging the Seattle Fault Zone Beneath West Seattle, Central Seattle, and Mercer Island, Washington State

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Mechanics of near-field deformation during co- and post-seismic shallow fault slip

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Role of fault gouge during Interaction between hydraulic fracture and a preexisting fracture

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View to the northeast from central Alpine, Utah of the northern Provo segment of the Wasatch fault zone.

New Methods for Dating and Sequencing Ancient Earthquakes Along the Wasatch Fault Zone

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Neotectonics of the Big Sur Bend, San Gregorio‐Hosgri fault system, central California

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Paleoseismology of the Denali fault system at the Schist Creek site, central Alaska

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Stress conditions inferable from modern magnitudes: development of a model of fault maturity

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Seismic and geodetic signatures of fault slip at the Slumgullion Landslide Natural Laboratory

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Seismic hazard of the Enriquillog-Plantain Garden fault in Haiti inferred from palaeoseismology

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A kinematic model for the southern Alaska orocline based on regional fault patterns

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Inverse kinematic and forward dynamic models of the 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska

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Static stress transfer during the 2002 Nenana Mountain-Denali Fault, Alaska, earthquake sequence

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Fault healing inferred from time dependent variations in source properties of repeating earthquakes

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Relationship of late Quaternary fault scarps to subjacent faults, eastern Great Basin, Utah

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Regional tilt patterns of Late Cenozoic basin-range fault blocks, western United States.

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Primary and secondary faulting in the Najd fault system, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Geometry and rates of change of fault-generated range fronts, north-central Nevada

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Preliminary evidence for Holocene movement along the Belair fault zone near Augusta, Georgia

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20-27. Fault processes and mechanics near Earth’s surface during coseismic and aseismic slip

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Aerial photo of a portion of Southern California, Palm Springs Landers. A colored lidar hillshade outlines the mapping region.

Hillshade of lidar acquired within the Pinto Mountain Fault Zone
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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

2017b high resolution seismic imaging of the West Napa Fault Zone, St. Helena, California

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19-6. Understanding the physics of shallow fault slip and the hazard it poses

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