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The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake ruptured part of a fault that typically slips in slow, transient events. Laboratory experiments show that when fault rocks are sheared at slow, plate tectonic speeds, the fault can slip either quickly or slowly.

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Figure 1: Fault rocks from the Japan Trench plate boundary.

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  1. Heather M. Savage is in the Division of Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964-8000, USA,

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Savage, H. Taking it slow. Nature Geosci 8, 823–824 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2565

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