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Inelastic earthquake damage

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Permanent surface deformation caused by the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes has been directly measured, constraining the mechanics of surface damage in earthquakes.

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Fig. 1: A surface rupture from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes.

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Acknowledgements

The work was partly supported by Guangdong Province Introduced Innovative R&D Team of Geological Processes and Natural Disasters around the South China Sea (2016ZT06N331) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (19lgpy61).

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  1. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Geodynamics and Geohazards, School of Geosciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China

    Wanpeng Feng

  2. Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, China

    Wanpeng Feng

  3. School of Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment, Yachay Tech University, San Miguel de Urcuquí, Ecuador

    Rafael V. Almeida

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Feng, W., Almeida, R.V. Inelastic earthquake damage. Nat. Geosci. 13, 661–662 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0642-x

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