Anatomy of a fault: A Wknd interview with CP and Kusala Rajendran

The seismologists’ new book recounts their life of adventure, mapping faults, decoding clues and searching for the signatures that earthquakes leave behind.

They are one of Earth’s most destructive forces, earthquakes. CP Rajendran and Kusala Rajendran would like to offer a reminder that they are one of Earth’s most creative too.

There would be no mountains without earthquakes; rivers would flow straighter; sea floors, valleys and deserts would look vastly different.

“Tremors caused by plate tectonics are one of the most fundamental dynamic motions of our planet,” CP says.

It’s kept them together too, the Rajendrans like to say. The geologist and