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http://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/m5-3-earthquake-strikes-offshore-southern-california-6741/
Geophysicist Mark Legg commented, “About every six years there’s been a M5+ offshore southern California. There was a M=6.0 in 1981 nearby. In this intersection area, which marks the boundary between the inner and outer continental borderland, there are many faults. The Santa Cruz Basin itself was ripped from Baja California and shoved northwest by the San Andreas shear zone. The Basin is ramming into the Transverse Ranges, marked by the Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands, which have been caught in the shear zone and spun like ball bearings.


1,549 posted on 04/05/2018 10:22:59 PM PDT by pinkpig
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Thanks PP I knew someone would have data on it!


1,559 posted on 04/05/2018 10:25:57 PM PDT by No_Doll_i
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To: pinkpig

So it is normal. Thanks


1,571 posted on 04/05/2018 10:32:21 PM PDT by defconw (Because Americans are dreamers, too!)
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