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temblor
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Ten days after the swarm began on March 30, 2008, it stopped, but then three more clusters of temblors followed in nearby areas, leading to a frenzy of 1,000 quakes in just five days along the Gorda Ridge, a tectonic zone off the Oregon and Northern California coasts.
A deeper understanding of the small, slow and imperceptible temblors generating an everlasting background of seismic activity may very well reveal clues to the processes that produce the Big Ones.
7-magnitude earthquake shook central California, less than a week after a pair of similar temblors rattled the highly populated southern part of the state.
 
 
 
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