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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A new study concludes that a long stretch of the mighty San Andreas Fault close to highly populated Southern California has usually only had very large earthquakes. The researchers' finding challenge an idea that frequent small temblors slowly relieve accumulating strain on faults and therefore reduce the likelihood of big quakes. Digging trenches at a site on the San Andreas 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles, geologists identified six events and found evidence that about 95 percent of slippage there has occurred during big quakes, with magnitudes ranging from 7.5 to 8, according to the study...

Quix note: FOLLOWING is the latest report from Timothy Snodgrass. Paragraphing has been increased for readability. Emphases have been added by Q. NOVEMBER 4, 2002 REPORT - ROADMAP TO APPROACHING 9.0+ QUAKE At the beginning of 2002, many of our prophetic reports began to deal with the topic of approaching earth changes, which would be begin with a great earthquake during the latter half of 2002 (9.0 or greater), and increase with a series of other large quakes and volcanic eruptions throughout the year 2003. The 9.0+ quake which we referred to – which has been delayed several times since...