rupture

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Previous studies based on seismic recordings suggested that earthquakes like this may involve a pulse-like rupture and slightly curved motion along the fault.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Here is how the rupture stacks up against past shocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

On Jan. 30, Vonn suffered a complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, with meniscus and bone damage, when she crashed during a downhill race in Crans Montana, Switzerland.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Low points came during the defeat in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, as well as her personal and political rupture with her former mentor Alex Salmond, who died in October 2024.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck