PubTalk 5/2021 - Where Earthquakes Hide in the Desert

Title: Where Earthquakes Hide in the Desert: What we've learned from recent fault ruptures in the western U.S.

By Austin J. Elliott, USGS Research Geologist

- Three large earthquakes since 2019 have ruptured incompletely mapped faults in the western U.S.
- Both satellite and field measurements give extremely detailed maps of how the ground deformed.
- Imaging these earthquakes and studying the previously unrecognized connectivity among the causative faults offers a rare window into the types of earthquakes that can occur, including how large and how often.

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