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“It’s a brilliant insight,” says Brendan Murphy, a geologist at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, who studies global tectonics and was not involved in the study.

Barley, M. E., Bekker, A. & Krapez, B. Late Archean to early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen.

In 1968, Dr. Oliver, Dr. Isacks and another former graduate student of Dr. Oliver, Lynn Sykes, wrote a paper, “Seismology and the New Global Tectonics,” that put together earthquake evidence from around the world that made a convincing case that continental drift — now called plate tectonics — was indeed occurring.

It's not the same fault, it's a consequence of the same bit of global tectonics, which is the collision of India with Asia.