Bob’s Reviews > Disaster Deferred: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone > Status Update

Referring to "stick slip," where strain energy buil;ds up over a very long time, then suddenly releases. Only to start the whole thing over again: "The earthquake cycle ... is one of geology's most imoprtant concepts -- slow processes over long times have big effects. ... slow motions build mountains and create oceans."