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Caltech/JPL Study: Ridgecrest Quakes Set Off Movement on Long-Dormant Fault

The two Ridgecrest earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks that jolted the Southland in July occurred in a domino-like sequence of ruptures on a web of connecting faults, sparking the first significant movement in 500 years along a major Mojave Desert fault, according to a report released Thursday by Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While there […]

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