EARTH SCIENCE
SEISMOLOGY
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Question
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Places where few earthquakes occur.
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Places where people are lucky.
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Places that could have strong earthquakes in the future.
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Places where there is a very low earthquake probability.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The seismic gap hypothesis states that large earthquakes preferentially occur in seismogenic fault regions, accordingly termed gap regions, where no large earthquake has been observed for a long time.
Detailed explanation-2: -The seismic gap hypothesis states that earthquake hazard increases with time since the last large earthquake on certain faults or plate boundaries. One of the earliest and clearest applications of the seismic gap theory to earthquake forecasting was by McCann et al.
Detailed explanation-3: -5911]. The basic idea behind the gap hypothesis is that stress on a fault will be released by a large earthquake so that one expects no other large earthquake until the stress builds up again.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seismic gaps help predict earthquakes because they identify areas along fault lines that have not had a lot of activity. These gaps tell us that stress and pressure may be building up in those areas so an earthquake can be expected over the course of the next several years.