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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 26 > Digging deeper into quakes

Digging deeper into quakes

One spot on the San Andreas Fault turns out to be a ‘gold mine’ to scientists

By Jia-Rui Chong / The Bulletin
June 26, 2009

CARRIZO PLAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. — Sitting in the bottom of a 3-foot-deep trench with a hard hat shaped like a cowboy hat, earthquake geologist Lisa Grant Ludwig scanned the bank of tan earth in front of her. Rainstorms had left layer upon layer of sand, silt and pea-sized....

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