And future earthquakes on or near the same fault are inevitable, seismologists say.
AT&T's much touted backup switching system carried the same fault and suffered the same crash.
Several other catastrophic earthquakes have occurred along the same fault system in Algeria.
But suddenly, former office workers and former warehouse workers find themselves straddling the same fault line.
Five years later, on April 20 , 2013 a magnitude-7.0 quake occurred at Ya'an City on the same fault line.
Ganas said the quakes on Sunday and Monday were not created by the same fault as those of 1953.
In the years after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Parkfield in 2004, the small repeating earthquakes recurred more frequently on the same fault patches.
He vowed to look into it, declaiming the same fault in the fish that he finds in so many of the planet's inhabitants.
At least nine more tremors measuring up to 6.3 on the Richter scale followed it on Tuesday along the same fault line, spreading further panic.
They were inextricably tangled up with a moment when black life in America retrenched along the same fault lines of racism and power.
Large earthquakes can, and usually do, lead to more quakes — but only in the same region, along or near the same fault.
