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Recent discovery along San Jacinto fault similar to an event before other powerful earthquakes

By KESQ News Team

“I hear people say it’s not if, it’s when,” says one local resident.

Could the big one be just around the corner?


“Near Anza Gap experts think Anza Gap is very close to producing a damaging earthquake,” said Abhijit Ghosh, a geophysicist at UC Riverside.

A breakthrough discovery by researchers at UC Riverside shows that the Anza Gap along the San Jacinto fault line is experiencing a seismic event known as slow slip.


“If the Anza Gap is slowly slipping underneath, then that means... Read more

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