The Kern County Earthquake Was a Footnote. The San Andreas Fault Is the Story.

Your phone buzzes a few seconds before the shaking starts. That happened across Southern California when a magnitude-4.3 earthquake near Kern County rolled through one Monday morning, and the alert arrived like a guest who announces himself right before walking in.

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