Active fault

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The Emerson fault, one of the segments that ruptured in the M7.2 1992 Landers, Calfornia earthquake. (Photo by Kerry Sieh, Caltech)

An Active fault is a fault that is likely to have another earthquake sometime in the future.[1]

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