The Cahuilla earthquake swarm occurred about 10 miles from the San Jacinto fault zone, between the San Jacinto and Elsinore faults near the Cahuilla Band of Mission Indians reservation.
Sources
More in Science
- A Japanese study published in Environmental Science & Technology found that the best areas for photovoltaic solar energy may be Earth's coldest regions, including high altitudes of the Andes and Himalayas.
- Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal, denounced risks of collusion between Roche and Novartis in the article "Avastin versus Lucentis".
- Scientists revived a roundworm that had been frozen in permafrost for 46,000 years.
- Higher daily step counts were associated with lower all-cause death rates among both men and women, younger and older adults, and white, black, and Mexican-American adults.
- An estimated 234,030 new cases of lung cancer were expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2018.
- The fault slip on the southern San Andreas Fault triggered by the 2017 Chiapas earthquake began minutes after that earthquake and continued for more than a year.