{"id":363038,"date":"2026-06-16T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363038\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:51:06","slug":"why-california-scientists-are-worried-about-a-major-fault-rupture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363038\/","title":{"rendered":"Why California scientists are worried about a major fault rupture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YKXHXCVCGNEEREW2B5IXWZ6L4U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the Los Angeles area may be at an increased risk of a more substantial quake in the years ahead. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZWUAZRTERZCFBDJVYTMWRF73HA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2025JB033213\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2025JB033213\">study<\/a> in the journal Advancing Earth and Space Sciences found seismic stress is accumulating on key faults near the greater Los Angeles metro area, in some sections reaching peak levels. And the findings reveal what researchers are calling an \u201cearthquake gate\u201d lurking just northeast of the city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the Los Angeles area may be at an increased risk of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-363038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}