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To: BenLurkin

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.


30 posted on 06/20/2019 12:34:07 PM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla; All

At least six large ruptures of the San Jacinto Fault Zone are known to have followed the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake that ruptured the central segment of the San Andreas Fault. These events began with the 1899 San Jacinto earthquake and occurred at intermittent intervals culminating with the 1987 Superstition Hills and Elmore Ranch events. The 1857 rupture spanned a total of 360 kilometers (220 mi) and terminated on the southeast end near the point where the San Jacinto Fault Zone branches away from the San Andreas Fault Zone at the Cajon Pass. In a paper published in the journal Science, Christopher Sanders plotted the earthquakes of the SJFZ by time and location and found that a uniform pattern became apparent. Moving southeastward from the Cajon Pass, the large SJFZ events appear on a line with a slope of 1.7 km per year and Sanders hypothesized that the 1857 earthquake introduced a strain pulse that migrated southeast and triggered large earthquakes as it traversed the SJFZ at that rate.[10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jacinto_Fault_Zone#Link_to_San_Andreas_Fault


31 posted on 06/20/2019 2:14:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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