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California earthquake warning?

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2019 in General Discussion
Is California going to have another big one soon? It will make the last big one in 1900's look like a picnic compared to this one coming?

serf

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/unprecedented-movement-detected-on-california-earthquake-fault-capable-of-8-0-temblor-1.603516/quake-1.603517

A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year?s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults, Caltech scientists say in a new study released in the journal Science on Thursday.

In the modern historical record, the 160-mile-long Garlock fault on the northern edge of the Mojave Desert has never been observed to produce either a strong earthquake or even to creep ? the slow movement between earthquakes that causes a visible scar on the ground surface. But new satellite radar images now show that the fault has started to move, causing a bulging of land that can be viewed from space.

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