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A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

What’s the difference between a strike-slip fault and a subduction zone? Can a local 7.0-magnitude earthquake? And what on earth was going on with all that weird footage of Humboldt Bay last week, in the wake of the quake? Jay Patton, of Cal Poly Humboldt’s geology department, is here to talk us through it all.

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A Geological Perspective on Last Week’s Quake

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