In Collecting Historic and Geologic Data on the Geographic Extent

question 54

Multiple Choice

In collecting historic and geologic data on the geographic extent of rupture zones for great earthquakes_____________ .

• A) zones of rupture for a singe great earthquake string out along the fault intermittently with intact regions like tears on a dotted line
• B) zones of rupture tend to be the same size and are sequentially located along the entire length of the fault, clearly indicating exactly which area is the next to break
• C) a clear pattern is bound to emerge eventually, if only we wait long enough
• D) individual rupture zones tend to occur adjacent to one another, without appreciable overlap, tracing out the plate boundary