Scientists Explain What The Recent Uptick In Earthquakes Means
Posted on 06/03/2014 10:04:13 AM PDT by blam
Rong-Gong Lin II
June 2, 2014, 7:42 PM
No, it's not your imagination: The Los Angeles area is feeling more earthquakes this year..
After a relatively quiet period of seismic activity in the Los Angeles area, the last five months have been marked by five earthquakes larger than 4.0. That hasn't occurred since 1994, the year of the destructive Northridge earthquake that produced 53 such temblors.
Over the next two decades, there were some years that passed without a single quake 4.0 or greater.
Earthquake experts said 2014 is clearly a year of increased seismic activity, but they said it's hard to know whether the recent string of quakes suggests that a larger one is on the way.
"Probably this will be it, and there won't be any more 4s. But the chance we will have a bigger earthquake this year is more than if we hadn't had this cluster," U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones said. "Every earthquake makes another earthquake more likely."
Quakes in the magnitude 4 range are large enough to be felt over wide areas but generally too small to cause much damage. The largest this year was a magnitude 5.1 in La Habra, which caused several million dollars in damage. Others hit Fontana and Rowland Heights.
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Actually, seismology is fairly good physics. Unfortunately, the deeper earth is unavailable to direct sampling, so the best one can do is derive statistical models based on reflections and refractions of the interior.
Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.
“As God as my witness, I thought FReepers could swim”
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sorry...
I laughed.
You might enjoy this video about the aftermath: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie_d8HoNWXg
Scientists Explain What The Recent Uptick In Earthquakes Means
It means that if you live in LA or near LA bend over and grab your ankles.
Left me shaken no stirred.
I know the one that geologists are said to have their (nervous) eye is the Puente Hills fault.
The Puente Hills fault is so dangerous because of its location, running from northern Orange County, through the San Gabriel Valley and right under the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles before it terminates in Hollywood.
The Puente Hills is a horizontal fault, and that means you’d get intense shaking felt over a pretty large area, about 25 by 15 miles.
In other words, not a day I’d want to be running around downtown Los Angeles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_Hills_Fault
Perhaps they should take a vote to reach a consensus.....
Luke 21:11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
GOD getting ready to punish the land of perpetual sinners?
Hey man, it could happen.
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