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The ‘Big One’ Could Be Coming: Ridgecrest Earthquake Awakens Fault Capable Of 8.0 Quake

Ridgecrest Earthquake San Andreas Fault Garlock Fault

After a 500-year slumber, the lesser-known Garlock Fault, near the infamous San Andreas Fault, is showing “unprecedented” movement after a series of earthquakes in July, according to a study published on Friday. The analysis by geophysicists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, documents a series of ruptures in a web of ...

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