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California's other drought: A major earthquake is overdue

  • Written by Richard Aster, Professor of Geophysics, Colorado State University
Fires break out across San Francisco after the April 18, 1906 earthquake.USGS

California earthquakes are a geologic inevitability. The state straddles the North American and Pacific tectonic plates and is crisscrossed by the San Andreas and other active fault systems. The magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck off Alaska’s Kodiak Island on Jan....

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