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Unprecedented movement detected on California earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor
Stars and Stripes ^ | October 17th, 2019 | RongGong Lin

Posted on 10/18/2019 3:09:10 AM PDT by cba123

LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) — A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults, Caltech scientists say in a new study released in the journal Science on Thursday.

In the modern historical record, the 160-mile-long Garlock fault on the northern edge of the Mojave Desert has never been observed to produce either a strong earthquake or even to creep — the slow movement between earthquakes that causes a visible scar on the ground surface. But new satellite radar images now show that the fault has started to move, causing a bulging of land that can be viewed from space.

“This is surprising, because we’ve never seen the Garlock fault do anything. Here, all of a sudden, it changed its behavior,” said the lead author of the study, Zachary Ross, assistant professor of geophysics at Caltech. “We don’t know what it means.”

(please see full article at the link, actually it is quite a well-written article)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; earthquake
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Graham Parson’s great group with Chris Hillman.


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