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The article focuses on the EarthScope project examining the San Andreas fault in California. It states that a major element of the project, a suite of instruments and detectors buried deep in the San Andreas fault, stopped functioning. Geophysicist Mark Zoback said that the instruments stopped functioning a few days after they were installed in the fault line. It mentions that there is insufficient funding to recover the detectors, which included seismometers and accelerometers.

The article reports that every day, several of California's more than 1000 shifting faults shake some part of the state. This clearinghouse of earthquake data keeps check on the ones that rattle northern California. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and the U.S. Geological Survey, the site catalogs magnitude, depth, location, and other measurements for earthquakes dating back to 1967. One should check out near-real-time recordings from a network of seismographs scattered around northern and central California.