Posted on 04/29/2013 8:45:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A pair of minor earthquakes that rattled the Westside over the weekend are more common than one may think, but that doesn’t mean residents shouldn’t be prepared, a seismologist said Monday
The two quakes were both centered about two miles north of El Segundo, with one on Friday registering magnitude-3.2 and a second, less powerful magnitude-2.8 temblor striking the area on Sunday.
No injuries or damages were reported after either incident.
Dr. Lucy Jones of Cal Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO these types of swarms are not exactly a rare occurrence.
“A magnitude-3 happens somewhere in Southern California a couple times a week,” Jones said. “This one just happened to be near a lot of people ’cause it was near LAX.”
According to Jones, the Los Angeles basin had experienced multiple magnitude-3 quakes and at least one damaging earthquake every year for seven years before the catastrophic 1994 quake in Northridge.
However, Jones did caution that the recent absence of a major quake in the Southland does raise some concerns.
“We do need to remember that the last 20 years has been a particularly quiet time in the history of Southern California,” she said. “The present quiet is not the long-term normal, and people do need to know that a some point, we’re going to be having more earthquakes than we’ve had recently.”
A USGS event map shows Friday’s quake was felt as far north as La Cañada Flintridge and as far south as Huntington Beach.
That’s about as prescient as saying that it is going to rain in the rain forest, or snow in the arctic.
Eventually the big one is going to hit, and then everything east of the San Andreas fault is going to fall into the Atlantic!
We are doooomed.
Wow...brilliant. Bet he’s applying for more government grant money so he can expand on his valuable research.
Really going out on a limb with that prediction!
Man made Kalifornia earthquakes, Oh Know!!!
I predict there will be a hurricane near the southeast this year too
No, really, if we get just a few more illegals will California tip over into the ocean?
Cause all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Translation: We need more money for earthquake detection and warning.
Probably Global Warming. Or, Climate Change.
i predict the sun will rise in the east on tuesday. can i get a government grant to study that?
I wonder how much that cost us in taxpayer grant money?
I just went to the earthquake.usgs.gov site and on the right side, there is a statement: “External Research Annual Competition is Now Open. Applications are invited for research under the 2014 National Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP). (Link to “Grants.gov.”)”
B212: retired heli-pilot, warned today; that more earthquakes, will happen in south California...
In other news, bears crap in the woods.
Shouldn't the more likely something is indicate a greater need for preparedness? Who would think otherwise, even in LaLaLand?
“Seismologist Warns ‘More Earthquakes’ Coming To SoCal”
Wonder what white entity Maxine Waters, et al., will blame??
So true!
Too quiet.
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