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- Sudden earthquake slip on a strongly coupled fault (about 70%, estimate)
- Earthquake sizes follow the Gutenberg-Richter law: each magnitude step up is about ten times rarer; about 12,000-14,000 earthquakes are located each year
- Most large earthquakes occur at subduction trenches; the 2011 Tohoku M9 released strain stored where the Pacific plate subducts beneath Japan
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