The San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California have reached their highest stress levels in a thousand years, according to new research from Live Science. Scientists are particularly concerned because a major earthquake on one fault could trigger a rupture on the other—essentially creating a domino effect of seismic activity. The discovery underscores California's ongoing earthquake risk.

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