The latest research seems to imply that all earthquakes are born equal. But combining that insight with earlier, seemingly contradictory, work could help us to tell which tremors grow to become more equal than others.
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Dolan, J. Greatness thrust upon them. Nature 444, 277–279 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/444276a
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