A California fault capable of producing an 8.0-magnitude earthquake has begun to move, scientists say
LOS ANGELES— A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults, Caltech scientists say in a new study released in the journal Science on Thursday. In the modern historical record, the 257-kilometer-long Garlock…