The San Andreas fault is a California obsession for obvious reasons. So this week's Nature Geoscience article on the fault's southernmost reach was bound to get media attention. Unfortunately, says Andrew Alden at KQED's Quest blog, many stories went too far in saying a huge quake was ovedue on that reach. The coverage "went from an intriguing journal article to 'we're all gonna die' TV stories in the space of a day," Alden complained.
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