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(1987) suggestion that deep faults that penetrate the crust can be locations for intraplate
deformation could, perhaps, explain the incidence of intraplate earthquakes near craton
boundaries. This speculation merits further research.
Detailed analyses of seismicity around LSCs show that the accumulated stress, S L ,
affects S T , locally rotating it over tens to hundreds of kilometers. This suggests that a
search for potential locations of large future intraplate earthquakes could be carried out by
monitoring evolving S L on a dense network of seismic and GPS monitors.
Acknowledgements
I want to thank Sue Hough, Randell Stephenson, Tom Owens, and Bill Clendinen for their
helpful reviews of various versions of the chapter. I also acknowledge with thanks Scott
Howard and Erin Koch for help with the figures. Many of the ideas in this chapter were
developed over the years and resulted from fruitful discussions with Kusala Rajendran and
Abhijit Gangopadhyay.
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