The “expert” in question is a joke. Some celebrity scientist they keep on retainer.
I will now wait to hear from AOC before I firm up my previous comment
Overdue?
[Wiki] [Quote] A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not “guesses” but reliable accounts of the real world.[Unquote]
Based on this assumption of scientific theory, just how long have these observations of earthquake phenomena in California been going on? Certainly it hasn’t been thousands and thousands of years, although there is a geologic record I don’t think the geologic record actually contains enough information to make the assumption that anything is overdue.
Perhaps the Cascadia subduction zone has a few more clues contained within the boundaries of that subduction zone that a possible forecast of 300 years is semi accurate, but there have been core samples all up and down the coast which indicates layers and strata of sand caused by tidal scrub in events known as subduction, and there is also tree-ring analysis plus there are the writings from the Japanese about the orphan tsunami which aid the quasi predictability of 300 years.
But the California fault lines are not subduction fault lines, and I think perhaps the term “overdue” is bandied about haphazardly and does not really constitute any level of reliability, but rather propagates the consistent sensationalism of the MSM.