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Seismologist Warns ‘More Earthquakes’ Coming To SoCal
CBSLA.com) ^ | April 29, 2013 8:12 AM

Posted on 04/29/2013 8:45:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin

PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A pair of minor earthquakes that rattled the Westside over the weekend are more common than one may think, but that doesn’t mean residents shouldn’t be prepared, a seismologist said Monday

The two quakes were both centered about two miles north of El Segundo, with one on Friday registering magnitude-3.2 and a second, less powerful magnitude-2.8 temblor striking the area on Sunday.

No injuries or damages were reported after either incident.

Dr. Lucy Jones of Cal Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO these types of swarms are not exactly a rare occurrence.

“A magnitude-3 happens somewhere in Southern California a couple times a week,” Jones said. “This one just happened to be near a lot of people ’cause it was near LAX.”

According to Jones, the Los Angeles basin had experienced multiple magnitude-3 quakes and at least one damaging earthquake every year for seven years before the catastrophic 1994 quake in Northridge.

However, Jones did caution that the recent absence of a major quake in the Southland does raise some concerns.

“We do need to remember that the last 20 years has been a particularly quiet time in the history of Southern California,” she said. “The present quiet is not the long-term normal, and people do need to know that a some point, we’re going to be having more earthquakes than we’ve had recently.”

A USGS event map shows Friday’s quake was felt as far north as La Cañada Flintridge and as far south as Huntington Beach.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: california; earthquakes; sanandreasfault; volcanoes
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s about as prescient as saying that it is going to rain in the rain forest, or snow in the arctic.


21 posted on 04/29/2013 9:12:54 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: F15Eagle

Eventually the big one is going to hit, and then everything east of the San Andreas fault is going to fall into the Atlantic!


22 posted on 04/29/2013 9:18:46 AM PDT by Be Free (I believe in gun control. The more people that control their own guns, the safer we'll all be.)
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To: Be Free

We are doooomed.


23 posted on 04/29/2013 9:30:29 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow...brilliant. Bet he’s applying for more government grant money so he can expand on his valuable research.


24 posted on 04/29/2013 9:50:45 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: BenLurkin
Seismologist Warns ‘More Earthquakes’ Coming To SoCal

Really going out on a limb with that prediction!

25 posted on 04/29/2013 9:55:44 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: dangerdoc

Man made Kalifornia earthquakes, Oh Know!!!


26 posted on 04/29/2013 9:57:12 AM PDT by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Sacajaweau

I predict there will be a hurricane near the southeast this year too


27 posted on 04/29/2013 10:01:20 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: MeganC
... and I saw a bear pooping in the woods.

No, really, if we get just a few more illegals will California tip over into the ocean?

28 posted on 04/29/2013 10:06:11 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("God bless Planned Parenthood"- B.H.Obama, 2013)
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To: BenLurkin

Cause all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard


29 posted on 04/29/2013 10:08:21 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: BenLurkin

Translation: We need more money for earthquake detection and warning.


30 posted on 04/29/2013 10:10:26 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Sacajaweau
Earthquakes....Southern Ca....Who would have thunk???

Probably Global Warming. Or, Climate Change.

31 posted on 04/29/2013 10:22:49 AM PDT by wbill
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To: BenLurkin

i predict the sun will rise in the east on tuesday. can i get a government grant to study that?


32 posted on 04/29/2013 10:23:10 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government shoud fear us.)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder how much that cost us in taxpayer grant money?


33 posted on 04/29/2013 10:25:56 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: bravo whiskey

I just went to the earthquake.usgs.gov site and on the right side, there is a statement: “External Research Annual Competition is Now Open. Applications are invited for research under the 2014 National Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP). (Link to “Grants.gov.”)”


34 posted on 04/29/2013 10:31:27 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: BenLurkin

B212: retired heli-pilot, warned today; that more earthquakes, will happen in south California...


35 posted on 04/29/2013 10:31:29 AM PDT by B212
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To: BenLurkin

In other news, bears crap in the woods.


36 posted on 04/29/2013 10:33:25 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
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To: BenLurkin
are more common than one may think, but that doesn't mean residents shouldn’t be prepared,

Shouldn't the more likely something is indicate a greater need for preparedness? Who would think otherwise, even in LaLaLand?

37 posted on 04/29/2013 10:33:33 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: BenLurkin

“Seismologist Warns ‘More Earthquakes’ Coming To SoCal”

Wonder what white entity Maxine Waters, et al., will blame??


38 posted on 04/29/2013 11:00:45 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

So true!


39 posted on 04/29/2013 11:04:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: missnry

Too quiet.


40 posted on 04/29/2013 11:06:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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