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San Andreas Fault Wouldn't Stop Statewide California Quake
2013-01-12 07:54:47

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Assumptions that the San Andreas Fault would automatically prevent an earthquake from affecting both northern and southern California at the same time may not necessarily be true, according to a new study published Wednesday in the online edition of the journal Nature. According to Eryn Brown of the Los Angeles Times, geologists have assumed for several years that the fault line would act as a barrier, preventing seismic...