Keeping an eye on geological faults can be useful even long after they convulse in a great earthquake. By watching a Turkish fault after a deadly 1999 quake, geologists have pieced together a detailed picture of creeping fault movement after a big shake-up.
UPS AND DOWNS After the great 1999 earthquake near Izmit, Turkey, the ground began deforming in ways that suggest the fault continues to move slowly.
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