Most people buying a home check the school ratings, the flood zone, maybe the noise from a nearby highway. Very few pull up a fault map. Yet across the United States, geologists have been quietly ...
Most people picture earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes regularly, the news covers it, and residents there have grown accustomed to a certain background level of geological anxiety.
Scientists say the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults are more stressed than at any time in 1,000 years, raising questions about future California quakes.