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My bets are on Godzilla.
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Posted on 09/23/2022 7:22:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Known as the Palos Verdes fault zone, the system runs deep beneath the Palos Verdes Peninsula. It previously was thought to be a segmented network of smaller faults, but a closer look by scientists at Harvard University suggests it’s a system of interconnected, closely spaced planar fractures stretching from the Santa Monica Bay to the waters off Dana Point.
The analysis determined the fault system, which runs beneath numerous neighborhoods as well as the ports of Long Beach and L.A., has a much larger surface area that could rupture in the same seismic event, making it capable of a far more powerful quake than was previously known.
Earlier estimates said the fault zone could generate up to a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, but the new study shows it could produce a quake as strong as 7.8.
The difference may be only a few decimal points, but an earthquake’s energy is measured exponentially. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a magnitude 7.8 quake produces quadruple the energy of a magnitude 7.4.
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Solution?
EVs and no backyard grilling.....
There are fears a very large magnitude quake on the San Andres could trigger the Newport/Inglewood fault and others. The LA area is riddled with big cracks or faults. The San Andres goes right up the Cajon Pass and up behind Wrightwood heading north towards San Francisco and South towards Palm Springs, Imperial Valley etc. The inland “crime” empire will be toast.
Newsom.
I hope he’s standing right over this fault when it opens up and swallows him into the bowels of the Earth.
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I’d like to see that.
Only Global Warming knows when the big one will hit.
Global warming doesn’t predict it but it will cause it.
Global Warming sees all. Knows all. All hail Global Warming.
Global Warming is the diety of CA.
Women, children, minorities, LGBTQ hardest hit.
Looks like the fault is mostly LA and offshore.
But 7.8 is way bigger than both Sylmar and Northridge so we won’t escape it in OC.
The 1989 Loma Prieta 7.5 quake is probably what you remember.
“I survived the Northridge quake and never want to go through one again.”
That was a 6.7. I was 50 miles away in OC and it still was scary as hell. One of my neighbors moved to Las Vegas because that was one earthquake too many.
I remember when the Northridge quake hit in 1994, my friend’s house in Simi Valley had their backyard swimming pool empty all of its water into their living room and move the shell of the pool out of its hole.
The Northridge quake gives me chills to this day and that was over 28 years ago.
It is caused by global warming.
Even hell will not accept him, so it will not happen.
COULD is a word that launches a thousand stories on slow news days.
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My bets are on Godzilla.
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