This interpretation suggests that the Seattle Uplift acts as a rigid block, and possibly explains the kinematic linkage by which large earthquakes may involve ruptures on multiple faults : the Seattle, Dewatto, and Tacoma faults represent the northern, western, and southern faces of a single block.
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Successful in Finnish hands against the Soviets during 1941 44, nevertheless it was placed on second-line duties by the Royal Air Force, who found the aircraft that arrived in Singapore had multiple faults, including secondhand poorly-conditioned engines, design flaws in the undercarriage, and unserviceable weapons and oxygen.
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The trouble is that we mostly don't-we have very ( very very ) poor imaging for the subterranean environment : it's a complex 3D system of multiple faults, where each fault is a complex 3D structure made from solids with pockets of aggregates or sand, lots of ( moving, sometimes ) underground water, all floating on a fulminating chaotic soup of magma.
