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An earthquake is, first and foremost, a disaster; lives are cut short, hopes and pleasures vanish. People who have never experienced an earthquake are fortunate; it is something of a luxury to consider the fracturing of the earth from only an academic point of view.
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Bayly, B. (1992). Parting. In: Mechanics in Structural Geology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9166-1_6
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