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Scientists admitted that the quake erupted around a hidden fault line that they could not immediately identify. But there are other fault lines that concern Californians just as much. During the past three months, a running turf battle between rival black and Latino gangs in the largely middle-class districts of Venice and Culver City on the west side has left 14 people dead. The prisons seethe with the conflict. In one big jail alone in northern Los Angeles County, there were 55 racial fights last year; early this month 80 were wounded in a brawl among 600 prisoners wielding...
...current unpleasantness is neither Yeltsin's fault nor Clinton's. But it is a fact. The free ride given Russia, based on hopes for a kind of Russia that...
...decades Californians have lived in fear of the tectonic monster that inhabits the San Andreas Fault, a spectacular, 800-mile-long slash through the earth's surface. But last week's earthquake was a sobering reminder that the mighty San Andreas is not the state's only seismic menace. A web of smaller cracks crisscrosses the fragile California crust. Many of these faults are well known. But others lie hidden deep underground, like the one that gave Los Angeles its latest disaster. Until the earth moved, the residents of the northwestern suburb of Northridge had no idea that a deadly...
Registering 6.6 on the moment-magnitude scale, a measure of earthquake energy that among scientists has largely replaced the Richter scale, the Northridge temblor didn't qualify as a Big One. (The San Andreas Fault, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, could produce a magnitude-8 quake, which would be more than 85 times as powerful.) But don't tell that to the people of Northridge and surrounding communities...
...place along the fault where the slip is not zero is considered a ruptured area...