New fault discovered in earthquake-prone Southern California region

[Emily]

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-fault-earthquake-prone-southern-california-region.html

[h=1]New fault discovered in earthquake-prone Southern California region[/h] [h=5]October 4, 2016[/h] A swarm of nearly 200 small earthquakes that shook Southern California residents in the Salton Sea area last week raised concerns they might trigger a larger earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault. At the same time, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno published their recent discovery of a potentially significant fault that lies along the eastern edge of the Salton Sea...