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Study: California's Big July Quakes Strain Major Fault

LOS ANGELES — The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures on a web of interconnected faults and increased strain on a major nearby fault that has begun to slowly move, according to a new study. Ruptures in the Ridgecrest earthquake...

Hollister Area Rolls With Magnitude 4.7 Quake

A magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck a remote area of Central California on Tuesday. But a seismologist said there was no connection to a slightly smaller quake hours earlier in the San Francisco Bay region. The temblor occurred at 12:42 p.m. and was centered about 16 miles (25 kilometers) southeast of Hollister...

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