There's a whole lot of shakin' going on in Southern California — 10 times more than seismologists had thought. Using a more accurate way of finding teeny tiny earthquakes, scientists counted 1.8 million of the temblors in Southern California from 2008 to 2017, according to a report in Thursday's journal Science . California is a seismic hotspot in the Lower 48 for earthquakes because of its many faults, including the San Andreas. "It means the Earth is failing all the time," said study lead author Zachary Ross, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. While computing power limited this type of work in the past, use of a supercomputer and new algorithms allowed the Ross team to do the needed work to find the Southern California quakes.

Source: ABC News April 18, 2019 18:33 UTC