Strong shaking at fault stepover has rocks—briefly—defying gravity

When Julian Lozos visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks had clearly been moved by the earthquakes—but there were no signs of dragging or shearing on the desert ground.

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