... Japan in 2011 was caused by a thin fault, "to our knowledge, the thinnest plate boundary on Earth"(Rowe) yet the San Andreas Fault is several kilometers thick. This study also reported that the fault that caused the earthquake in Japan wasn't supposed to rupture but it did. San Andreas Fault is believed to have been building stress over time ... a whole is regarding natural disasters, in the project approved "complex catastrophe" which is "any natural disaster that leads to a result in multiple casualties affecting the population, public health, environment." It is talked about what pre...

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