A recent study published by researchers at CalTech and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in the journal Nature has found that California's San Andreas fault may be at risk for a "mega-quake" that could shake the state from one end to the other.
One such "stable" segment of California's San Andreas fault, a portion stretching from Paso Robles to Monterey, was generally thought to act as a buffer preventing a single earthquake from affecting both the Los Angles and San Francisco Bay areas. However, this study implies that, under the right conditions, just such a large-scale quake is possible.
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