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Quake to Hit Los Angeles By September 5th (6.4 Richter or Higher)
Sydney Morning Herald & Agence France Presse ^ | April 15, 2004 | wire staff

Posted on 04/15/2004 2:01:12 PM PDT by threat matrix

A US geophysicist has set the scientific world ablaze by claming to have cracked the holy grail: accurate earthquake prediction, and warning that a big one will hit southern California by September 5.

Russian born UCLA professor Vladimir Keilis-Borok says he can forsee major quakes by tracking minor tremblers and historical patterns in seismic hotspots that could indicate more violent shaking is on the way.

And he has made the chilling prediction that a quake measuring at least 6.4 magintude on the Richter scale will hit a 32,000 square km area of southern California bt September 5.

The team at the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics accurately predicted a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in central California last December as well as an 8.1 magnitude trembler that struck the Japanese island of Hokkaido in September.

A major quake will hit an area that stretches across desert regions to the east of Los Angeles, home to about nine million people, including the Mojave desert and the resort town of Palm Springs, which lies near the notorious San Andreas fault.

(Excerpt) Read more at smh.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: earthquake; palmsprings; prediction; predictions; thebigone; ucla
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To: threat matrix
Trouble in Liberalville. THIS MUST BE BUSH'S FAULT!
21 posted on 04/15/2004 2:16:41 PM PDT by StopThePress
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To: pbear8
Dick Clark is going to apologize soon...
22 posted on 04/15/2004 2:16:45 PM PDT by threat matrix
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To: threat matrix
No, that would be a cold day in hell!
23 posted on 04/15/2004 2:18:51 PM PDT by elephant
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To: StopThePress
reporter: 'President Bush, what do you say to the victims of this future earthquake?'
24 posted on 04/15/2004 2:20:59 PM PDT by threat matrix
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To: elephant
Hey Barbara Streissand and the Malilbu crowd - maybe you ought to take a hike to France until it's certain the earthquakes are past ~ a good 50 years or so ought to do it!
25 posted on 04/15/2004 2:22:07 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: threat matrix
OMG! - Everything East of the San Andreas Fault will fall into the Atlantic!

We're DOOMED!

26 posted on 04/15/2004 2:22:31 PM PDT by N. Theknow
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To: WinOne4TheGipper
It's Bush's fault!!! Or will be...

The article said it was the San Andreas fault.

(groan)

27 posted on 04/15/2004 2:24:15 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: threat matrix
I was going to try to head out that way about then or sooner to sprinkle some of my husband's ashes in places that he loved living in. One of his favorites was Mojave. The other is north of there along the east side of the Sierras at Big Pine.
28 posted on 04/15/2004 2:25:28 PM PDT by dstarr (Pacifists are the Parasites of Freedom)
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To: TomGuy
"...extremist West California separating from the mainland."

And don't watch when it happens. You'll turn to a pillar of salt.
29 posted on 04/15/2004 2:27:31 PM PDT by beelzepug (growing more confused by the minute)
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To: threat matrix
Does this mean tbe leftist most part of the left coast will fall off into the ocean? Hollyweird?
30 posted on 04/15/2004 2:27:48 PM PDT by Jaded (Through Him all things are possible)
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To: threat matrix
an 8.1 magnitude trembler

Sigh. Last I checked, the actual term was temblor.

(Yeah, it means "trembler," but still...)

31 posted on 04/15/2004 2:28:29 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: threat matrix
So far UCLA Physics lab is two for two..

Yeah...that would make one worry a little bit. Then again, it is California, you or I could just guess that far off, and have a pretty good shot that one will happen.

Wonder how much the next earthquake will cost the taxpayers...

32 posted on 04/15/2004 2:28:42 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: threat matrix
Flipping a coin might get you two for two, but if you get 5 or six straight that'd be unusual.

These regions are large and all fairly active. Bet that there'll be events over any given time and you can't go wrong. Nailing the magnitude is another matter, unless there's a history.

The urban LA region gets pretty solidly hit every 20 years or so; usually a ~5.0 and then a larger 6.5 or so. 1933, 1956, 1971, 1994.... How much you wanna bet we get hit again by 2015?

33 posted on 04/15/2004 2:29:47 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: SGCOS
Day after day, more people come to L..A..
Don’t you tell anybody, the whole place’s slipping away
Where can we go, when there’s no San Francisco ?
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho

34 posted on 04/15/2004 2:30:04 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
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To: threat matrix
Thunder thighs hitlery the witch having a crash landing off her broom???
35 posted on 04/15/2004 2:31:29 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (I don't know how any Christian can go to church on Sunday and vote for a democrat on Tuesday.)
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To: nobody in particular
Vegas casinos got any odds up yet?
36 posted on 04/15/2004 2:31:44 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: threat matrix
But Dick Clarke could dance to the beat of a good earthquake.
37 posted on 04/15/2004 2:31:49 PM PDT by pbear8 (no complaining...Thanks be to God)
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To: SGCOS
Betcha you could get odds at Ladbrokes already..
38 posted on 04/15/2004 2:34:10 PM PDT by threat matrix
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To: Jaded
Err, actually a sliver containing all of San Diego, LA, and about half of San Fransisco will slide north to Alaska while remaining above sea level. Nothing will "fall" into the ocean.

Going to have to wait tens of millions of years for it to happen a few inches at a time, though :-)

There's some discussion/debate that over the long term, the main faulting will run up the East side of the Sierra, meaning all of California and about the Western 1/3rd of Nevada would take off and slide north to Alaska as well.
39 posted on 04/15/2004 2:34:12 PM PDT by John H K
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To: John H K
It's literally physically impossible to have a 10.5 quake in California, or anywhere else for that matter.

What's the limit? In the Seattle area we keep hearing that we're due for one around 9 on the Richter scale sometime in the next couple hundred ye

40 posted on 04/15/2004 2:34:29 PM PDT by Eala (Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
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