Harvard University study finds fault system runs nearly 70 miles along the coast of Los Angeles and Orange counties. Fault system could trigger a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, scientists say. Fault runs beneath neighborhoods, ports of Long Beach and L.A. and Los Angeles. Fault could produce a quake of a magnitude 45 times stronger than the Northridge quake, researchers say. Aftershocks would be like falling dominoes, they say, in a worst-case scenario, with hundreds of building collapses.Read Long Article
