Re-elected mayor Karen Bass will fly off to a ceremony in Africa with her entourage claiming "no one told her about it."
Posted on 06/10/2026 6:41:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The critical role of Cajon Pass
Cajon Pass is the tectonically complex junction where the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults converge. It’s located near several densely populated communities, including Los Angeles, San Bernadino, Riverside, and Coachella Valley.
Burkhard and her colleagues determined that Cajon Pass can act as a so-called “earthquake gate,” controlling whether large ruptures remain confined to a single fault or cross both fault systems.
When stress on both faults accumulates simultaneously toward similarly high levels, it’s more likely that a large joint rupture will cross both systems, according to the study.
The model showed that stress has reached 3.6 megapascals (MPa) on the San Jacinto-Bernadino section, the highest level seen anywhere in the 1,000-year simulation. Meanwhile, the neighboring Mojave South section of the San Andreas fault has accumulated 2.8 MPa of stress, indicating that both segments are under similarly high levels of strain.
Again, this study does not predict when the next major earthquake could rock Southern California, nor does it show that such an event is necessarily imminent. Rather, it offers a clearer picture of the region’s seismic hazard. This critically stressed fault system could rupture at any time, so communities need to prepare for the worst-case scenario.
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In reality, I don’t wish for that kind of carnage. But with what I’ve seen of CA lately, in fantasy, it would be fun.
Caused by global warming
Maybe God finally has had enough of California’s godless Woke BS and is going to send it off into the ocean?
The measurements made by the Native Americans a thousand years ago may not have accurately recorded the stress levels present at that time.
Well, my grandson in SFO called me the other day. He was a bit uptight.
Heat-—expansion.....
With any luck, LA, San Francisco and Sacramento will all suddenly slide beneath the waves one day soon.
1000 years?
Who measured them a 1000 years ago? Vikings?................
But. A “new model” showing a “potential” earthquake in southern California at the triple junction of the San Andreus Fault, gets the latest publicity. Because, this model sends money to Southern California?
They say that like it's a bad thing.
I’d be uptight if I lived in San Francisco, too.
Re-elected mayor Karen Bass will fly off to a ceremony in Africa with her entourage claiming "no one told her about it."
It will be bad.
The Pacific Plate won’t move just north. It will also lift 5-10 feet severing every track, road, aqueduct. All the people west of the San Andreas will be cut off from water and more except as can be brought in along the coast (and by sea and air after the ports and runways are repaired.)
That’s about ten million people.
Makin’ way for Otisburg.
Cool. Bring on some excitement.
Which side would be higher; east or west of the fault?
Everyone that I know who lived in CA has left, mostly to Texas and GA. So if CA fell into the ocean I might miss some of the wine but that’s about it.
I don’t really want it to happen but I have to ask. Does the nation respond to a catastrophe in Democratic blue California the same way that the Democrats responded in North Carolina mountain people after Helene?
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