Seismologist explains the recent increase of earthquakes in Southern California

Clothing racks and surfboards inside Malibu’s Drill Surf & Skate shop rattled during Sunday afternoon’s magnitude 4.1 earthquake.

“It was definitely a pretty good jolt,” owner Craig Clunies-Ross said. “It seems like over the last year or two, they happen more often, to me at least.”

Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey agreed that Clunies-Ross’s intuition is right. Last year, Los Angeles County experienced 15 seismic sequences that included a magnitude 4.0 earthquake and several aftershocks…

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