Indonesia expert warned of quake, gov't mapped risk areas

Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Updated 9:19 pm PDT, Wednesday, October 10, 2018 | Andi Jatmiko and Margie Mason, Associated Press

[thecodont]

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But Indonesian scientist Gegar Prasetya wasn't surprised by any of the events that occurred at dusk on Sept. 28, killing nearly 2,000 people and leaving possibly thousands more missing. He had warned people for years that the area around Sulawesi island's Palu Bay had been struck before and was due for another potential combination of factors to create a perfect storm capable of unleashing earthquakes, landslides, tsunami waves and soil liquefaction.

[thecodont]

Putting this one out there because I’m keeping my eye on the junction of the Cascadia and San Andreas Faults. It’s active and it is making me a bit nervous. There have been a bunch of little quakes in the vicinity of Petrolia, CA. A strike-slip fault meets a subduction fault. What could happen?

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B35.764343479667176%2C-130.49560546875%5D%2C%5B45.13555516012536%2C-111.09374999999999%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3Anull%7D

[SaveFerris]

bkmk

[sauropod]

Thanks for letting us know.

Something to pay attention to.