Is the Big One near?

The World

Over the course of two days last week, 50 to 60 small earthquakes shook the Earth at the foot of the San Andreas Fault. Some fear the chances of a Big One hitting the Los Angeles area are greater now than ever before. Leonard Ceeber is a Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University and he joins us on the show to talk about this.

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