e/Blind thrust earthquake

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has glosseng: A blind thrust earthquake is an earthquake along a thrust fault that does not show signs on the Earth's surface, hence the designation "blind" . Such faults, being invisible at the surface, have not been mapped by standard surface geological mapping. Sometimes they are discovered as a by-product of oil exploration seismology; in other cases their existence is not suspected.
lexicalizationeng: blind thrust earthquake
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