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Ubiquitous quartz veins within the crust underscore the contribution of silica precipitation to fault sealing and fluid-pressure changes during earthquake cycles. However, quantifying silica ...

Fluids can reactivate tectonic faults and have the potential to cause earthquakes, as observed both in natural seismic swarms 1,2 and in response to fluid-injection activities related to energy ...