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Published October 21, 2012 | Version public
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Human-induced shaking

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  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

In 2011, a modest earthquake in southern Spain seriously damaged the city of Lorca. Analysis of surface deformation suggests that the quake was caused by rupture of a shallow fault patch brought closer to failure by the pumping of water from a nearby aquifer.

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© 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Published online: 21 October 2012.

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35847
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CaltechAUTHORS:20121206-101046504

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2012-12-06
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2021-11-09
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Seismological Laboratory, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS)