California researchers find way to pinpoint major earthquake hotspots
Researchers at UC Riverside have developed a method to identify stress accumulation along fault lines to pinpoint potential locations for major earthquakes. While the method cannot predict the timing of quakes, it helps identify high-risk subduction zones.
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Add The California Post on Google Researchers at a public university in California say they have developed a way to identify the most likely locations of some of the world’s biggest earthquakes .
It comes the same day a quake shook parts of LA‘s South Bay in the early hours of Sunday morning.
People in the area said they felt the tremor, however, no major impact was reported.
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The US Geological Survey recorded the quake at magnitude 3.2, with the epicenter located 2 miles southeast of Compton . It struck shortly after midnight at approximately 12:15 a.m.
University of California, Riverside researchers say the method isn’t able to predict when an earthquake will happen or what potential consequences, such as tsunamis , could result from it.
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