However, many conceptions and understandings concerning fault segment and segmentation need to be further discussed at present.

但目前有许多涉及分段问题的概念和认识还有待深入的讨论。

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Around the propagating fault segment the disturbed stress field of maximum shear stress displays an eight petal pattern and that of mean stress displays a four quadrant pattern.

围绕断层扩展部位剪应力增量场呈八瓣式分布，平均应力增量场呈四象限分布。

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The principle is simple: a fault segment that has ruptured in a large quake in the past will-once enough strain has again accumulated-likely fail again in a similar-size earthquake.

原理很简单：一个在之前的强地震中断裂的断层带，一旦再次聚集了足够大的压力后，将可能再次引发同等级别的地震。

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But on that fateful Friday, when the North American plate slid over the Pacific plate along a subduction zone running 130km (80 miles) off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, the shock leapt from the first segment to a second and on to a third, extending the fault zone some 400km and increasing its intensity more than 30-fold.

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