Denier!
Posted on 03/15/2015 7:00:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Earlier this week, the U.S. Geological Survey released a new study, which concluded that California faces a bigger chance of experiencing a powerful earthquake in the next 30 years than previous studies had predicted.
Non-seismologists who just glanced at the news headlines about the study -- including ours -- may have been left worrying that the risk of "The Big One" is now greater, due to some alarming change in Earthquake faults.
But the explanation is actually more complicated, though not necessarily more comforting. The upside is that recent discoveries about the nature of earthquakes and how they spread, coupled with advances in supercomputer software and monitoring technology, now enable scientists to make more accurate predictions about future quakes.
The Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, also known as UCERF3, used those conceptual and technological advances to predict that the chances of an 8.0 or greater event -- roughly, the equivalent of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 -- rocking the state in the next 30 years has increased from 4.7 percent to 7.0 percent. Meanwhile, the chances of significant but less-than-catastrophic quakes in the 6.5 to 7.0 range actually has gone down slightly in the new forecast.
The big reason for the difference from previous forecasts is that scientists have figured out how to solve a longstanding limitation in earthquake prediction models, according to Tom Jordan, a University of Southern California professor of earth sciences and one of the study's authors.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
“Let’s publish something!”
Remove all the lubricant from the tectonic plates and what else would you expect? Yosemite is one mega pimple ready to explode. The remaining liberals might actually pay attention to the bible after it erupts...
global warming. the rocks are too hot.
either that or fracking...
Just a plea for more money from idiot professors!
AL GORE: [T]wo kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ‘cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot ...
Here in Concord, CA some houses are beginning to have cracks on the wall, on cement patio, door being stuck. Not sure but it sounds like the earth beneath is slipping inch by inch or perhaps shoddy workmanship in building the houses.
For the same reason globull warmunist models predict catastrophe?
Because......petroleum.....
I'm sure you meant Yellowstone, not Yosemite, though there is a large volcano (Long Valley) near Yosemite.
The problem is to much oil in the ground. It is making the faults slippery. We must re move all oil around the fault lines.
Mammoth could be the big one.
Denier!
They just haven't got the hang of their new equipment.
The earth is always moving.
I’m just waiting for all those homes perched on the East Bay hills to go sliding down to the bay.
*screeeeeee!*
Uh oh.
SoCal is Doomed,I tell You!
Rattle Snakes in Ocean Beach,
Machete fights in North Park
and now,
EARTH QUAKES!
We Are All Gonna Die !
Substandard foundations, design or construction.
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