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SEISMOLOGY: Parkfield Keeps Secrets After a Long-Awaited Quake
Richard A. Kerr
Last week's earthquake in central California has justified seismologists' belief that Parkfield was the place to wait for a sizable quake they could study, but they didn't get it entirely right.