Posted on 03/30/2014 5:06:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra and well over 100 aftershocks by Sunday, stretches from northern Orange County under downtown Los Angeles into Hollywood — a heavily populated swath of the Los Angeles area.
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake along that fault could prove more catastrophic than one along the San Andreas, which runs along the outskirts of metropolitan Southern California, seismologists said.
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that such a quake along the Puente Hills fault could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people and cause up to $250 billion in damage. In contrast, a larger magnitude 8 quake along the San Andreas would cause an estimated 1,800 deaths
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
A .5 is very series! Oh, the Hugh Manatee!
Beebers are stuned!
0.5 Quake? Isn’t that like, a cat jumping off a porch somewhere? [Ask the Mods to fix the title.]
Oh my. Should read 7.5.
7.5 would be destructive most anywhere, even Japan where they reasonably anticipate one of that magnitude every few years. Hopefully the recent earthquakes have relieved stress.
Gad, you’ve got to love the hyperbole attached to ANY news item. We have a 5.1 EQ - fairly insignificant in a place with great structural engineers and know-how. ‘We COULD all die.” There is a snowstorm - ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it, IF it snows forever.” We have a drought - ‘The land could shrivel up and blow away.” Coupled with, of course - ‘No amount of rain will ever be enough.”
Not sure I could feel a .5. That’s about like an SBD.
please fix title. Should be 7.5
Perhaps this article will prompt some “flood geologists” to study up on thrust faults. ;-)
Yep ... a 0.5 quake would be hugh and series!
If you are on the West coast— Flee!! NOW!!
If you are on the West coast— Flee!! NOW!!
.5 is nothing..now 7.5 could be disastrous..that fault line goes from Puente Hills all the way to Downtown LA..imagine if Northridge instead of it being at 4:30AM had happened at 4:30PM, the death toll would have been much higher
In Whittier, adjacent the south slope, they're called the Whittier Hills.
o.5 warp ?
The Russians gave it a 6.9
And they can blame it on the now biggest land fill ever
I was next to lax living on the 5 floor first quake that scart the pelosi out of me power was out had to get to my folks all the gates were chain drive no Emergency release plus it was dark huge park west apt complex well i had a big ass pair of bolt cutters and in the trades as a civic duty i took them and cut and opened all 5 gates ha ha
Yes any time from about 6 am to 7 pm the death toll would have been imho in the 1000s also i spent the next five years quake proofing homes it was good times
If the newport inglewood fault popped a 6 to 7 t would not be pretty either that fault brought you the 33 long beach quake
I have this fear that one day, after a monster rain storm on top of the Puente Hills Landfill, there will be the big earthquake, and all that trash goes into liquefaction and the hillside fails, swallowing up the 60 freeway and Congressman Calderon’s (D) office along the north side of the 60.
Speaking of things seismic, Why I am reminded, dunno, but we used to live right there in Avocado Heights. In 2006 IIRC, one of the strangest things I ever saw, wife and I young boys were at McDonalds on Valley Blvd at Workman Mill road.
This McDonalds has step-down into the dining area. While we were waiting for our order, we heard the sound of bricks klinking together. We looked down into the dining area and we saw the brick tiles folding upwards slow-motion along a crack line the entire length of the dining area.
Whoa! Maybe there was fault line right there?
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