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The quake caused serious shaking in many parts of the Coachella Valley, located about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.

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A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...