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They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

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Protecting lives is no easy task in the nation’s most populated county, built on land prone to fires and straddling five active earthquake faults.

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Raducanu looked fatigued as she recovered from three double faults to hold serve at the start of the second set.

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It was impossible to avoid the conclusion that Martin thought it was always the fault of others.

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The world number 27 recovered from back-to-back double faults in the next game to consolidate her break and took the second set to level the match.

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