Big Quakes Trigger Small Ones—Not Other Big Ones

Over the past 15 months, large earthquakes have struck China , Haiti , Chile , New Zealand , Japan , and Burma . But those quakes weren’t connected, and they won’t trigger any other big ones, seismologists say. A new study shows that, even when they seem linked, large and distant quakes likely aren’t—and while…

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Big Quakes Trigger Small Ones—Not Other Big Ones

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