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    Posted: 05 Nov 2009 at 1:14pm

Astonishing, who'd have thought that echoes of past quakes could continue for hundreds of years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8342600.stm

Quote Many recent earthquakes may have been the aftershocks of large quakes that occurred hundreds of years ago, according to scientists.

In the journal Nature, researchers described a new pattern in the frequency of aftershocks that could explain some major quakes.

They found that, away from plate boundaries, echoes of past earthquakes can continue for several hundred years.

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