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Quote:California mega-earthquake: fear of the 'Big One?'

New research suggests that a newly discovered 'structure' in the San Andreas fault line could result in a massive earthquake, often referred to as the "big one."

The geological study, written up in the journal Lithosphere, details that there is a 15- to 20-mile-long stretch of the San Andreas fault ‒ called the Durmid ladder structure ‒ that could result in an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 or greater.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/06/2...g-one.html

Full story at link.

The referenced paper is freely available to everyone online at:

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/lit...ations-for

Brian