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Highlights
Microseismic Events Associated with the Oroville Dam Spillway
On 14 February 2017, two small seismic events occurred in proximity to the Oroville Dam in the Sierra Nevada foothills, California. A new report found 19,000 smaller‐magnitude events near the Oroville spillway that were similar to the events and occurred in clusters that strongly correlate with periods of spillway discharge. (SSA news release)
Collection of 3D Geometries for Global Subduction Zones
A new picture of the geometry of subducting slabs around the world, the locations of the world’s largest earthquakes.
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