Don’t small quakes relieve the pressure that can lead to “The Big One”?
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Mayor Garcetti shouldn't have hauled out all those tons of baked beans to the homeless at the same time.
Doing/using Lucy’s math:
Seismologist Lucy Jones told the Los Angeles Times that the small quakes don’t mean the big one is more or less likely. According to Jones, there’s only a 5% chance that any single quake will be followed by a larger one.
Hang on then, S. California could have 50 stronger quakes.
Come on, Earth! You can do it! save up that energy for the big one. Then split california off the continent, and sink it in the ocean.
I didn’t realize that southern California was a hotbead of fracking operations.
I did not feel any.
The massive amount of Oil in the ground wants out ,LOL
Californication shakes all the time.
it is good
it relieves stress on the big fault lines
and thus, lowers the chances (or at least postpones) THE NEXT BIG ONE (quake) which could kill thousands and thousands and thousands of people
I read that there is only a 5% chance that a bigger earthquake follows a small one.
So 5% * 1000 earthquakes = =5000% chance a bigger one is coming.
I read that there is only a 5% chance that a bigger earthquake follows a small one.
So 5% * 1000 earthquakes = =5000% chance a bigger one is coming.
All that can be reliably taken from the increase of small quake number is that there is an increase in movement. The rack that tar is running into the streets probably isn’t a good sign either.
More like they are hitting the Inland Empire rather than SoCal. No one in my part of OC has said a word about any earthquakes. Knock on wood.
CA should ban methane.
Review of this swarm indicates they are along the projection of a NE-SW trending fault extension. These are not related directly to the san andreas except that they are conjugate faults to the san andreas. YEs, there will be a big one - but not due to this swarm. It only shows stress continues to build.
6.4 hit this morning about 8 mi East of China Lake NWS.
Multiple 4.0+ since then.
We felt it yesterday afternoon, lateral slow motion waves in Coachella Valley, though not shown on USGS. Lots of -0.2 Mg quakes, haven’t seen those posted before.