Rupture illustration (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Rupture illustration

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A figure from the study illustrating the two rupture mechanisms described in the paper, dehydration embrittlement and thermal runway, and how they may have increased the force of the Calama earthquake.

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Jia et al.

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