/ keystone fault Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en /news/breaking-strongest-link-triggered-big-baja-earthquake <p>A spate of major earthquakes on small faults could overturn traditional views about how earthquakes start, according to a study from researchers at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior in Ensenada, Mexico, and the University of California, Davis.</p> <p>The study, published Feb. 15 in the journal <a href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/index.html">Nature Geoscience</a>,&nbsp;highlights the role of smaller faults in forecasting California’s risk of large earthquakes.</p> February 15, 2016 - 12:59pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/breaking-strongest-link-triggered-big-baja-earthquake