Putting the pieces together
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 03:00
in Earth & Climate
On April 4, 2010, the ground beneath the deserts of Baja California started to rumble, then rip apart, sending tremors throughout a region 40 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. In the months that followed, the 7.2-magnitude quake the second-strongest ever recorded in Baja California triggered aftershocks that could be felt as far north as Los Angeles.