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Old tectonic scars run deep: the magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Ontario

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Chris Rowan

The location of yesterday’s earthquake in Canada was controlled by tectonic processes that operated, and ceased, hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Categories: deep time, earthquakes, geohazards, geology, structures, tectonics