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What do you think accounts for the higher risk of earthquakes in Los Angeles than in Chicago?
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What do you think accounts for the higher risk of earthquakes in Los Angeles than in Chicago?

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Los Angeles has the higher risk of earthquakes
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Los angles is closer to the San Andreas fault. The San Andreas fault is a tectonic boundary between the Pacific plate in the North American plate.
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