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a segment of an active fault zone that has not experienced a major earthquake over a span when most other segments have. such segments are probable sites for future major earthquakes

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Where a major earthquake has happened in the past but not in a while is called a seismic?

Seismic gap.


What are the areas along a fault that few earthquakes have taken place?

Seismic Gap


What area along a fault where few earthquakes have happened recently but where strong earthquakes have happened before?

seismic gap


What does seismic mean?

(not seismic, seismic wave)Seismic waves are waves of energy that travel through the earth.


What can locate a seismic wave?

A seismograph can locate a seismic wave.

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What is a area where few earthquakes have happened recently but will probably happen in the future?

If the part of the fault has had large earthquakes historically, then this may be a locked section, or seismic gap, where strain is building up for a future big earthquake. If there is no evidence of it having big quakes in the past then it may just not be very active.


Where a major earthquake has happened in the past but not in a while is called a seismic?

Seismic gap.


How do seismic gap relate to gap hypothesis?

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Areas along a fault where relativity few earthquakes have occured?

A seismic gap


What are some example sentences using the word seismic gap?

It would be very difficult to resolve the problem as there was a seismic gap between what the employers wanted and what the workers wanted.


Does a seismic gap allow scientists to predict an earthquake?

no.


A place where a major earthquake has happened in the past but not recently is called a seismic?

A place where an earthquake has occurred in the past but not recently is known as a seismic gap.


What are the areas along a fault that few earthquakes have taken place?

Seismic Gap


What is the difference between gap hypothesis and seismic gap?

Gap Hypothesis is a hypothesis that is based on the idea that a major earthquake is more likely to occur along the part of an active fault, where no earthquakes have occurred for a certain period of time. A Seismic gap is an area along a fault where relatively few earthquakes have occurred recently, but where strong earthquakes have occurred in the past.


What is the theory that sections of active faults that have had few earthquakes are likely to be sites of strong earthquakes in the future called?

it is called the gap hypothesis


What do scientists call an area along fault where no earthquake activity has occured for a long time?

a seismic gap


Area along a fault where few earthquakes have happened recently but where strong earthquakes have happened before?

seismic gap