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To: Steve Van Doorn; smileyface
"You heard of these kids in China lake before?

It sounded like BS to me. No information on who the kids are. There condition now and so on."

Things that make you go 'hmmmmmmm'. From Wikipedia:

"At 10:02 a.m. PDT (17:02 UTC) on July 4, 2019, a 4.0 Mw  foreshock occurred about 6.8 mi (10.9 km) southwest of Searles Valley, California.[13][14] A foreshock registering 6.4 Mw  occurred at 10:33 a.m. PDT (17:33 UTC) 7.5 mi (12.1 km) southwest of Searles Valley.[15] The most populated area near the epicenter was Ridgecrest, home to 28,000 people.[16]

The foreshock originated along a strike-slip fault in the Eastern California Shear Zone, a region frequented by earthquake swarms, near the edge of Death Valley National Park.[16][17] The rupture occurred along a 10 mi (16 km) section of an unspecified fault line. Earth on either side of the fault was deformed, with lateral shifts of 6–8 in (15–20 cm) in the immediate vicinity.[18]

The exact fault it occurred on is uncertain with many small faults encompassing the region, though United States Geological Survey (USGS) seismologist Susan Hough stated it may have been the Little Lake Fault.[19] Focused at a relatively shallow depth of 6.6 mi (10.7 km)..."

531 posted on 07/21/2019 10:13:15 AM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly
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To: Larry - Moe and Curly
"The foreshock originated along a strike-slip fault in the Eastern California Shear Zone"

Yes, I'm not sure the actual term for this is. I call it a cascading effect of earthquakes. Where one quake triggers other faults in the same very large region.

560 posted on 07/21/2019 12:27:04 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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