In Collecting Historic and Geologic Data on the Geographic Extent

question 128

Multiple Choice

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

• A)individual rupture zones tend to occur adjacent to one another, without appreciable overlap, tracing out the plate boundary
• B)a clear pattern is bound to emerge eventually, if only we wait long enough
• C)zones of rupture for a singe great earthquake string out along the fault intermittently with intact regions like tears on a dotted line
• D)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

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