Oil put L.A. on the map. It may have exaggerated the city's quake risk too
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Hoping to escape traffic on her way home from Los Angeles International Airport, Susan Hough found herself driving down La…
Oil production may have triggered some LA earthquakes in the 1920s
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Enlarge / The City of (oil-pumping) Angels, around 1900. Oklahoma has the unfortunate distinction of becoming the capital of…
Southern California's deadliest quake may have been caused by oil drilling, study says
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On a March evening in 1933, the Newport-Inglewood fault ruptured violently along the Huntington Beach coast. The quake brought…