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Gosh with Yellowstone doing it’s thing and now with this things could get pretty complicated out west. I hope not because I’d hate to see what FEMA’s response would be under Obama!
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What is clear from the data presented in the report is that the frequency of earthquakes being reported for the area in the study is a statistical average, as in a rate of “an average of every 137 years”.
The report is not presenting data reflecting a periodic cycle in the prior history of “once every 137 years” or so.
A history reflecting a prior periodic cycle of roughly close to every 137 years, or so, would make the concern larger (more immediate) than it is, as a simple average rate of years between quakes of varying number of years apart;
particularly given the fact that the data available is for such a small part of the actual past time during which quakes in that area must have been occurring (like, how many eons has the Pacific Plate been hitting the North American Plate?).
Earthquakes happen, or they don’t. The LA Times needed some filler on a page.
Come’on Hollyweird!!! Wait for it,....wait for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hit it baby, Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!!
Does California have a “Department of the Big One”?
Back in the late 80s early 90s there was the swarm of fairly good sized quakes. Whittier Narrows, Yucaipa, Northridge. Around that time the emergency preparedness people were predicting that a new round of frequent quakes was certain to occur just ahead. That warning was in vogue around 1992.
Suddenly, the activity dropped off a cliff. For at least a decade, there were hardly any quakes.
The truth is folks, these folks know no more about quake frequencies and near term predictions that you and I do.
Don’t let any of this get to you. It essentially means nothing at all.
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