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Re:Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California by rjurney on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:09PM (#20357352)
Small earthquakes are a good thing, not a bad thing. They relieve stress on the fault without having a major slippage. I think.
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Re:Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California by wwweston on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:13PM (#20357387)
The stress-relief model makes sense to me, but apparently it doesn't work that way:

https://www.sfgate.com/earthquakes/article/do-minor-quakes-p...

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Re:Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California by FPGAhacker on Thursday July 04, 2019 @05:03PM (#20357775)
It does, and the article affirms this. However it's a question of relative magnitude. The energy dissipated by the smaller quakes is dwarfed in comparison to larger quakes. The energy of a 5.5 quake is on the order of 1/1000th the energy of a mag 7 quake.
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Re:Strongest earthquake in years rattles Southern California by rjurney on Saturday July 06, 2019 @03:10AM (#20368407)
I guess things didn't end up working that way today. Or maybe the 6.4 prevented the 7.1 from being even stronger :(
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