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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on October 14, 2014, 10:38:52 PM

Title: Earthquake Forecast: 4 California Faults Are Ready to Rupture
Post by: Ptarmigan on October 14, 2014, 10:38:52 PM

Earthquake Forecast: 4 California Faults Are Ready to Rupture
http://www.livescience.com/48274-fault-creep-california-earthquake-risk.html

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With several faults slicing through the San Francisco Bay Area, forecasting the next deadly earthquake becomes a question of when and where, not if.

Now researchers propose that four faults have built up enough seismic strain (stored energy) to unleash destructive earthquakes, according to a study published today (Oct. 13) in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

In a major leftist area.

Title: Re: Earthquake Forecast: 4 California Faults Are Ready to Rupture
Post by: Dori on October 14, 2014, 10:47:24 PM

Calif. is full of major and minor faults.  It's been a long time since there has been anything major.