Two faults, one gate, and the quake California fears most

The faults beneath Southern California are wound tighter than they have been in a millennium. A new study finds that tectonic stress on the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems has reached, and in places exceeded, the highest levels seen in the past 1,000 years, leaving the region in what researchers call a critically […] The post Two faults, one gate, and the quake California fears most appeared first on Rolling Out.

Two faults, one gate, and the quake California fears most

The faults beneath Southern California are wound tighter than they have been in a millennium. A new study finds that tectonic stress on the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems has reached, and in places exceeded, the highest levels seen in the past 1,000 years, leaving the region in what researchers call a critically […]

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