In Collecting Historic and Geologic Data on the Geographic Extent

In collecting historic and geologic data on the geographic extent of rupture zones for great earthquakes_____________ .

A) zones of rupture for a singe great earthquake string out along the fault intermittently with intact regions like tears on a dotted line
B) zones of rupture tend to be the same size and are sequentially located along the entire length of the fault, clearly indicating exactly which area is the next to break
C) a clear pattern is bound to emerge eventually, if only we wait long enough
D) individual rupture zones tend to occur adjacent to one another, without appreciable overlap, tracing out the plate boundary