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SANTA ANA, Calif. _ A team of scientists will evaluate claims that a large blind-thrust fault, capable of producing up to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, lies beneath Orange County's San Joaquin Hills.
The claims have been made in recent years by a research group led by Lisa Grant, a University of California-Irvine, geologist who is studying a subterranean fault that appears to extend from Dana Point to Newport Beach.
"There has been uplift in the San Joaquin Hills. But we don't know whether it was caused by seismic activity or some other geologic force," said Bill Bryant, a senior geologist with the state Division of Mines and Geology.
Bryant says ...