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Earthquakes

"Earthquakes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Sudden slips on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slips, or by volcanic or magmatic activity, or other sudden stress changes in the earth. Faults are fractures along which the blocks of EARTH crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the fracture.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Earthquakes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Earthquakes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 8 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2010 and 2023
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