In the modern historical record, the 160-mile-long Garlock fault on the northern edge of the Mojave Desert has never been observed to produce either a strong earthquake or even to creep.

The study by geophysicists from the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that the Garlock Fault – which runs east to west for 185 miles from the San ...

A large quake on the Garlock fault has the potential to send strong shaking to the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, Lancaster, Palmdale, Ventura, Oxnard, Bakersfield and Kern County, one of the ...

The Garlock fault, which can produce an 8.0 earthquake, has woken up. Too bad the Centennial development is being built nearby.

With the Garlock odds leaping up, the chances that a catastrophic quake will strike the San Andreas fault in the next 12 months have also risen, from .35 percent to 1.5 percent in the same period ...

The Garlock Fault in the Mojave desert was quiet for 500 years–but it's not looking so quiet any more Brittany Martin Oct 18, 2019 ...

"The Garlock Fault has been quiet for a long time," lead author of the study Bill Barnhart said in a statement. "But there's geologic evidence that there have been large earthquakes on it.

The Los Angeles Times says the aftershocks appear headed southeast toward the Garlock Fault, the second-biggest in the state at 160 miles long.

The experts used machine learning technology in their analysis, which estimates a 2.3 percent chance of a magnitude-7.7 Garlock Fault rupture in the next year.

Nation and World News » Unprecedented movement detected on California earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor Thursday, October 17, 2019 10:05 am ...