"raises the on-going question of what to make of earthquake activity in this area that was neither part of the September rupture nor the February rupture"
"The on-going activity there indicates the region still has a sufficient level of stress to drive earthquake activity,"
It's not so much that the earthquakes get smaller and smaller with time," he said. Rather, "they get less frequent".
Whether there was still energy to be released from The Gap was "a matter for debate.