The southern San Andreas fault near Los Angeles is considered a candidate for a major earthquake because:
A) it moved fairly recently during the Northridge earthquake and so is ready to move again
B) it is a divergent plate boundary
C) magma is rising along the fault and heating it up
D) this segment of the fault has not moved for more than 100 years
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