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Glossary of earthquake terms
The Emerson fault, one of the segments that ruptured in the M7.2
1992 Landers, Calfornia earthquake. (Photo by Kerry Sieh, Caltech) |
ActiveFault
An active fault
is a fault that is likely to have
another earthquake sometime in the future. Faults are commonly
considered to be active if they have moved one or more times
in the last 10,000 years.
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