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"publishedAt": "2026-02-26T14:15:15.000Z",
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"textContent": "A boomerang earthquake starts at one edge of a fault (yellow star) and initially ruptures in one direction (yellow to red crescents). After propagating forward, a secondary rupture travels backward through the already ruptured area (red crescent moving left), an effect that can increase ground shaking on geometrically simple faults. Credit: Sun and Cattania [2026], Figure 1",
"title": "Boomerang Earthquakes Don’t Need Complex Faults"
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