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Plates slide past each other horizontally. The friction between the plates causes stress to build up, eventually releasing earthquakes along faults such as the San Andreas Fault in California.
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Cappelli, MFA, JD, PhD
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The cause of Ojai's latest cluster earthquakes.
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