Dangerous times ahead?
'Our study suggests that strain is travelling along the fault line. It built up and then released in the earthquakes we've seen since 2004. And it isn't over yet; there's still plenty of strain stored up in the area offshore from the city of Padang on Sumatra. More than 1 million people live there and the likelihood of another big earthquake remains dangerously high,' says Jean-Philippe Avouac, the study's lead researcher.
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Jean-Philippe Avouac (left), earth scientist, California Institute of Technology.
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