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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has donated $1.2 million to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory to install a small network of earthquake sensors around the San Andreas Fault at Cholame to monitor faint tremors that have been discovered in the area.
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Large 2012 earthquake triggered temblors worldwide for nearly a week
September 26, 2012:
This year’s largest earthquake, a magnitude 8.6 temblor on April 11 centered in the East Indian Ocean off Sumatra, did little damage, but it triggered quakes around the world for at least a week, according to a new analysis by UC Berkeley and USGS seismologists. Some large quakes apparently can prime other, very distant faults to break later, says study co-author Roland Burgmann.
