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Re:Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013) by Pulcinella on Sunday December 24, 2023 @11:14AM (#38754419)
We went all the way to magnitude –2,” Weatherley says — an earthquake so small, he adds, that it involves a slip of only about 130 micrometres along a mere 90 centimetres of the fault zone. “You still get a pressure drop of 50%,” he notes.

Interesting. Is there a rough rule of thumb that translates magnitude into slip size and length?

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Re:Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (2013) by ChaseT on Sunday December 24, 2023 @06:50PM (#38758190)
Got curious about this too, there's some graphs of the relationships on page 992 and 993 of this paper https://www.resolutionmineeis.us/sites/default/files/referen...
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