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  "description": "I use template matching and precise relative relocation techniques to develop a high-resolution earthquake catalog for the initial portion of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, from July 4-16, encompassing the foreshock sequence and the first 10+ days of aftershocks following the Mw 7.1 mainshock.  Using 13,525 routinely cataloged events as waveform templates, I detect and precisely locate a total of 34,091 events.  Precisely located earthquakes reveal numerous cross-cutting fault structures with dominantly perpendicular SW- and NW-strikes.  Foreshocks of the Mw 6.4 event appear to align on a NW-striking fault.  Aftershocks of the Mw 6.4 event suggest that it further ruptured this NW-striking fault, as well as the SW-striking fault where surface rupture was observed.  Finally, aftershocks of the Mw 7.1 show a highly complex distribution, illuminating a primary NW-striking fault zone consistent with surface rupture, but also numerous cross-cutting SW-striking faults.  Aftershock relocations suggest that the Mw 7.1 event ruptured adjacent to the previous NW-striking rupture of the Mw 6.4, perhaps activating a subparallel structure southwest of the earlier rupture.  Both the NW and SE rupture termini of the Mw 7.1 rupture exhibited multiple-fault branching, with particularly high rates of aftershocks and multiple fault orientations in the dilatational quadrant NE of the NW rupture terminus.",
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  "keyword": [
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    "biota",
    "earthquake occurrences",
    "volcanology"
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  "modified": "2020-08-18T00:00:00Z",
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    "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"
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  "spatial": "-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0",
  "theme": [
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  "title": "A High-Resolution Seismic Catalog for the Initial 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence"
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