One natural explanation would be a fault running through the area that makes a sharp turn, where "you would expect more strain to accumulate, " Ausbrook said.

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The center line looked as if it was running over an active fault line.

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The trench is a highly active fault line running north from New Zealand towards Tonga and Samoa.

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James Urquhart nails it when he describes how modern applications, running in the cloud, still need to be resilient and fault tolerant, still need monitoring, still need to adapt to huge swings in load, etc.

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