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Can earthquake fault lines become extinct?

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Can earthquake fault lines become extinct?

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Yes, more or less. It is quite common to find faults in rocks that have not been active for, well, perhaps billions of years in some cases. But faults usually represent a weak zone in a rock and thus could be reactivated under the right conditions, so, for this reason, we usually call them inactive rather than extinct.

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