Earthquake experts wonder whether Southern California is next

Earthquake experts wonder whether Southern California is next

Earthquake experts wonder whether Southern California is next

BRAWLEY, Calif. — Next to a field of alfalfa is a roadside sign celebrating the things that define life here, 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles: service clubs (Lions, Kiwanis, etc.), the 4-H club, the high school sports booster club.-

Down the street is a sign for the annual rodeo and parade. In many ways Brawley is a typical farming community, but there is one distinction that makes it unique: It is the unofficial earthquake capital of California, maybe the nation.

The Brawley Seismic Zone, branded a “nest of faults” by geologists, has more earthquakes than anywhere else in this earthquake-prone state, about 1,200 in the past year. Brawley earthquakes have long been studied by seismologists.

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