Tianjin fault and Seismic GapAn Yin et al. recently published in Geology about the Tangshan-Hejian-C
Tianjin fault and Seismic GapAn Yin et al. recently published in Geology about the Tangshan-Hejian-Cixian (THC) fault in China. They have discovered a “seismic gap” which is without earthquakes. That may sound good, but the lack of earthquakes means energy is only building up for a big one, similar to what happens at famous faults like California’s San Andreas fault, which has a locked section near Los Angeles and a different locked section near San Fransisco. The THC fault also is locked near a big city, Tianjin, with 11 million people waiting. At least now they might be able to get more prepared. This fault system has already produced the single deadliest earthquake, in 1976, which killed as many as 750,000 people according to some estimates.-Mr. AArticle: A possible seismic gap and high earthquake hazard in the North China Basin, Yin et al., 2014 (http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2014/11/14/G35986.1)Image: Historic seismicity around the THC fault, by Yin et al. -- source link
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