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Quake expert: San Andreas "locked, loaded, and ready to roll"
Posted on 5/5/16 at 1:55 am
Posted on 5/5/16 at 1:55 am
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Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.
The San Andreas fault is one of California’s most dangerous, and is the state’s longest fault. Yet for Southern California, the last big earthquake to strike the southern San Andreas was in 1857, when a magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured an astonishing 185 miles between Monterey County and the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles.
It has been quiet since then — too quiet, said Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.
Although the Pacific plate is moving northwest relative to North America at about 16 feet, or 5 meters, every 100 years, the southern San Andreas fault has been quiet for more than a century. (Thomas Jordan / Southern California Earthquake Center)
“The springs on the San Andreas system have been wound very, very tight. And the southern San Andreas fault, in particular, looks like it’s locked, loaded and ready to go,” Jordan said in the opening keynote talk.
Other sections of the San Andreas fault also are far overdue for a big quake. Further southeast of the Cajon Pass, such as in San Bernardino County, the fault has not moved substantially since an earthquake in 1812, and further southeast toward the Salton Sea, it has been relatively quiet since about 1680 to 1690.
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Posted on 5/5/16 at 1:56 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 5/5/16 at 1:56 am to Jim Rockford
Related: Underside of North American plate is peeling off, causing earthquakes in the southeast US LINK
Posted on 5/5/16 at 1:57 am to Jim Rockford
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This post was edited on 1/10/21 at 11:03 pm
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:05 am to 2poop
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:06 am to Jim Rockford
I am sure this is bullshite and it better be because I have way too many important people in my life that live on top of that fault
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:20 am to Jim Rockford
quote:They've been saying this for more than a decade. The average person in california doesn't think about this for more than one minute a year at most.
Jim Rockford
Posted on 5/5/16 at 2:33 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Jim Rockford
They've been saying this for more than a decade. The average person in california doesn't think about this for more than one minute a year at most.
But he hadn't met his thread quota for the day...needed something to throw out there.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 3:28 am to Jim Rockford
maybe they should call The Rock
Posted on 5/5/16 at 3:33 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The average person in california doesn't think about this for more than one minute a year at most.
I see you live in Cali but I also lived there for close to 10 years of my life and that is BS IMO. I didn't worry about earthquakes until I experienced my first legit one and then I worried about them every single time it got overcast, especially since I knew the huge brick fireplace in the home I owned had collapsed into the house and through the roof in during a strong earthquake before I bought it. My ex lived ON the San Andreas fault, right on the border of Northridge and Reseda, and during the Northridge quake her house shook so hard that not only did it knock everything off of the walls but her 9 foot deep pool had less than 1 foot of water in it after from the shaking....and there were no cracks in the pool. Her fathers house down the road had a carport that went under the house and that part of the house collapsed and smashed the cars but luckily those rooms had nobody in them....he moved his younger kids out of the state ASAP after that because of the helpless feeling he had while it was going on. They all had no power for over 2 weeks and that quake wasn't anywhere near what this article predicts. You are very lucky that you don't worry about them but that just tells me you haven't been in a big one. Living along the San Andreas is like constantly knowing you could experience Katrina like damage with zero notice. To me there is literally nothing scarier than an earthquake because you have no warning and when they start your world is turned upside down and you have no idea how bad it will be until it, and the aftershocks, are over. frick Earthquakes.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 3:38 am to lsu480
Why the frick would I sit and cower about this? Nothing we can do about it.
If it happens then whatever. I'll just get to do a shite ton of blow before I die.
If it happens then whatever. I'll just get to do a shite ton of blow before I die.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 3:42 am to Jim Rockford
The only way I'd move to an earthquake prone area is if I was offered a once in a lifetime job. At least with hurricanes and tornadoes there's a warning and you can prepare. With earthquakes there's no getting away once it starts, frick that.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 3:43 am to McCaigBro69
You wouldn't, but you would think about it more than 1 minute a year. Especially when there is earthquake weather.....
Posted on 5/5/16 at 4:09 am to lsu480
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You wouldn't, but you would think about it more than 1 minute a year.
Yeah I can't deny that. I deal with like 10-12 tornado warnings a year (Finally got by one for the first time this year) and I honestly can't go to sleep knowing there's a tornado warning) and I constantly think about that crap.
I think I'd have to actually experience and earthquake before I'd ever think of it.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 4:24 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
See you down in Arizona Bay
Posted on 5/5/16 at 4:53 am to mpar98
Learn to swim 
Posted on 5/5/16 at 5:58 am to Jim Rockford
They said the New Madrid fault was primed and ready to go when I was a kid. We used to have to do earthquake drills in elementary school. 25 years later and still nothing.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 6:11 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:Not really. They've been saying it for 3 decades.
They've been saying this for more than a decade.
Always someone out there in some field, always pushing doomsday.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 6:38 am to TigerMyth36
Well, 30 years is mere seconds in geolological time.
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