Quake to Hit Los Angeles By September 5th (6.4 Richter or Higher)

Sydney Morning Herald & Agence France Presse ^ | April 15, 2004 | wire staff

[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.

[threat matrix]

How about during a USC/UCLA football game?

[william clark]

Gee, ten years since the last big one, and he's giving himself a six-month window. Really going out on a limb, isn't he? If one happens six months later, he'll just say he was off a little, but still claim credit, no doubt.

[Joe Hadenuf]

For example: if a five-mile-wide asteroid hit outside L.A. do you think a 10.5 reading might be recorded?

A five mile wide asteroid?

Boris, if one of those hit, outside LA, it would bounce Arkansas into the Atlantic Ocean. An asteroids at least 3/4 or a mile wide, could cause planetwide catastrophes.

The one suspected to have killed off the dinosaurs 60 million years ago, was an estimated 6 miles in diameter.

[BurbankKarl]

[Joe Hadenuf]

For example: if a five-mile-wide asteroid hit outside L.A. do you think a 10.5 reading might be recorded?

Agree, it would probably put it off the scale. lol.....

[MAWG]

I hope it is a 10! Couldnt happen to a more deserving place. Maybe it'll send some of them free-loading, thieving Mojados back across the border where they belong!

[CedarDave]

Northridge?

[BobS]

"Hopefully, it will be centered in the desert."

I'd prefer it be under the highest concentration of liberals in L.A. Let's see if they loot each other like the middle class didn't after the Northridge one. We also helped each other. Let's see if they help each other.

[boris]

"The "Ring of Fire" has never gone off all at once, or anything close to that, so I'm not sure what you're talking about there."

I saw an article in Scientific American some years ago which discussed the entire Ring of Fire going off with a periodicity of ~100,000 years...or that's my recollection.

Thank you for correcting my "Steps" to "Traps"; I had forgotten the correct term.

Are you a professional geologist or geophysicist? I have a question for such a one.

--Boris

[California74]

It hasn't been 10 years since the last big one. True, Northridge was 10 years ago, but there was also the 7.1 Hector Mine quake in 1999.

Check out this link for history of quakes in so. cal.
http://www.data.scec.org/clickmap.html

[pete anderson]

Actually it will be the San Andres Fault not the Bush Fault.

[jragan2001]

I remember roughly ten years ago when quake researchers were predicting, with some accuracy (or so they thought!)
an earthquake would strike and be centered around the
Northern California town of Parkfield, and would register at least a 6 on the Richter Scale. Of course nothing happened, which goes to show that earthquakes will happen
when they want to.

[Benjamin Dover]

This info must be in a Bush PDB. Let's call for declasification, select a committee of bipartisan members and have hearings. I'm sure Dick Clark has a chapter of his warning in his book. How could you Mr. President? You knew.

[threat matrix]

You mean the beachfront condos in Malibu?

[BurbankKarl]

there was looting in Sherman Oaks....I saw it....

Also drew down with my mossberg590 on someone at Sepulveda and Burbank.

[goldstategop]

Is it time to leave California? Well, we've been warned.

[threat matrix]

My sister won't listen.

[ErnBatavia]

Ah yes...number three (collapsed Newhall Pass interchange); so many of us had the distinct pleasure of watching the process of destruction and then rebuilding as we crawled in and out of the Santa Clarita Valley getting to and from work.

Ya know, it realllly sucked leaving home before 4am to get to work by 8...

[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[xJones]

I guess I ought to forward this to my mother-in-law in Riverside County.

Hey, my mother-in-law lives in Riverside Co., also. I'm not sure how to tell her that Vladimir Keilis-Borok might suggest that she sleep outside in her backyard for the next few months.:)