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San Andreas Fault So Stressed, Next Quake Could Be Magnitude 8
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1121&category=Environment ^ | July 27, 2006 | Linda Moulton Howe

Posted on 07/29/2006 12:04:14 PM PDT by Blogger

July 27, 2006 La Jolla, California - Last month, the June 22, 2006, issue of the science journal Nature, published recent detailed research of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California. The data shows the San Andreas so stressed that its next quake release of energy could be a magnitude 8 on the Richter scale. The San Andreas Fault is considered the main boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates that are slowly moving past each other. Some day in the far distant future, those moving plates might even break off sections of the Pacific coast into the ocean. The tension between those moving plates is what makes California "earthquake country." ....... To put a magnitude 8 earthquake into perspective, one hundred years ago on April 18, 1906, San Francisco was hit by an early morning earthquake between magnitude 7.7 and 7.9. That quake ruptured the northernmost section of the San Andreas fault for 296 miles. From San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino, that 1906 earthquake stunned geologists with its huge horizontal displacement in the Earth's crust. At least 3,000 people died. Broken gas pipes set the city on fire.

(Excerpt) Read more at earthfiles.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: bushsfault; california; earthquake; sanandreas; sanandreasfault; science; thebigone; wereallgonnadie; weredoomed
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There are more interesting things in the article regarding the big quake. Does anyone know about earthfiles as a source? Alarmist, or pretty dead on?
1 posted on 07/29/2006 12:04:15 PM PDT by Blogger
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San Andreas Fault So Stressed, Next Quake Could Be Magnitude 8

I predict it will be April 12th, 2062 at 4:12 AM PST (give or take 50 years).

2 posted on 07/29/2006 12:06:13 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Blogger

we are doomed


3 posted on 07/29/2006 12:06:22 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Blogger

Do you know who Linda Moulton Howe is? She's quite famous in certain circles.


4 posted on 07/29/2006 12:06:50 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: Blogger

We have only one question to ask and answer here: knowing his luck, this calamity will occur on President Bush's watch. Why has the President not prepared to ensure that all victims of the quake leave expeditiously and live the remainder of their lives in luxury thanks to the Bush personal fortune?


5 posted on 07/29/2006 12:06:57 PM PDT by dufekin (The New York Times: an enemy espionage agency with a newsletter of enemy propaganda)
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To: Blogger

Earthquakes, rumors of wars, diseases (Bird flu SARs), droughts, it sounds like the end of the world is about here.

How are things with the Temple Mount? What happens if a katushya rocket hits it???


6 posted on 07/29/2006 12:07:21 PM PDT by Perdogg
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Bush's Fault!

Linda Moulton-Howe is a regular contributor to the George Noory late-night paranormal gab-fest. Take from that what you will.


7 posted on 07/29/2006 12:07:30 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)
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(The obligatory......)

It's gonna be Bush's fault.

8 posted on 07/29/2006 12:07:48 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Politicians are like diapers. They need changed often, and for the same reasons.)
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To: Dark Skies

No I don't. That's why I was wondering about the source. I had it sent to me on a news group I'm on.


9 posted on 07/29/2006 12:08:10 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: dufekin

we need to evacuate this hemisphere in 3 days


10 posted on 07/29/2006 12:08:19 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Perdogg

That would be a shame, wouldn't it :)


11 posted on 07/29/2006 12:08:45 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: JennysCool

Ah. I know who George Noory is. Nuf said.


12 posted on 07/29/2006 12:09:07 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: dufekin

It's Bush's fault since Bush has been in office 6 years and has not spent one dime on it. /sarc


13 posted on 07/29/2006 12:09:18 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Blogger

Judging from some of the interviews I've heard her conduct on late night talk radio - shortly after the big one, we'll be transported to spacecraft where they'll finally reveal the secrets to crop circles.

BTW: California will then float away to become part of Baja, Mexico.


14 posted on 07/29/2006 12:10:45 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Earliest known photo of John Bolton: http://www.twainquotes.com/homequote2.jpg :)
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The data shows the San Andreas so stressed...

Which part? IIRC, there are three stretches of the fault, and because of the way they are separated it's highly unlikely that the fault will unzip all at once. But Strategerist is up on this stuff, so hows about we ping him? :)

15 posted on 07/29/2006 12:11:37 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Cementjungle
I predict it will be April 12th, 2062 at 4:12 AM PST (give or take 50 years).

What kind of forecaster are you??? Everyone knows that in mid April,the entire West will be on Daylight Time,not Standard Time. ;-)

(Yah...I know,I know! Arizona)

16 posted on 07/29/2006 12:11:40 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: dufekin

You are so right! President Bush has had the absolutely worst luck ever since his first inauguration. Was the first crisis when that Air Force plane accidentally landed on Chinese territory?


17 posted on 07/29/2006 12:12:01 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Democrats: soulless minions of orthodoxy.)
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To: Blogger
A big quake, in California? San Francisco would be gone..off in the ocean..

So what.

18 posted on 07/29/2006 12:12:05 PM PDT by PattonFan (Not me, I don't believe in paying for the same real estate twice." George C. Scott , "Patton")
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To: Blogger

She's very bright (Stanford grad), darned good journalist, Emmy winner...and reports on cattle mutilations, crop circles, UFO abductions, etc.


19 posted on 07/29/2006 12:12:07 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: Gay State Conservative
What kind of forecaster are you??? Everyone knows that in mid April,the entire West will be on Daylight Time,not Standard Time. ;-)

I was taking into account a future law change aimed at making siestas for Mexicans fit in better!

20 posted on 07/29/2006 12:15:34 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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