Conversing Faults: The 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake

The visualizations presented in this study illuminate the seismic waves as they ripple through the Earth, generated by the “unzipping” of fault lines during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. The earthquake sequence cascaded across previously unknown sets of “antithetic” faults. The 3D visualization illustrates how the multiple faults can rupture in unison and complementary ways, defying prior assumptions of earthquake behavior.

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