For the past several thousand years, there has been a major earthquake south of the San Gabriel Mountains in California every 150 or so. The last one was 300 years ago, just before farming, gold, tourism and technology exploded the human population.
Credit: Theo Alexopoulos, ACCD, USGS, SCEC
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