Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: Identifying uniquely coseismic off-fault deformation preserved in fault damage zones: Can we resolve the maximum earthquake size on faults?

Scientists assess potential earthquake hazards along known faults by studying past earthquakes that have occurred along those faults. Because earthquake recurrence intervals may be hundreds to thousands of years for any given fault, the number of earthquakes directly observed on that fault in recorded history is typically one or two at most.…