Warner Bros Pictures might want to rethink the shooting of San Andreas II – the sequel to the 2015 blockbuster about a massive earthquake striking the San Francisco Bay Area that starred the Rock, Paul Giamatti and a host of other A-list actors.
Because if the US Geological Survey’s worst fears are confirmed, the seismic devastation depicted in the film might hit a little too close to home. According to the Daily Mail, 134 earthquakes have hammered a three-mile stretch around Monterey County on the San Andreas fault over the last week – a pace that’s making seismologists nervous.
The San Andreas fault stretches 750 miles north to south across coastal California, forming the boundary of the Pacific plate and North American plate.
Of those earthquakes, 17 were stronger than 2.5 magnitude and 6 of them were stronger than 3.0. And experts at the USGS warn that more tremors are expected in the coming weeks.
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The rumblings are amplifying fears raised last week that the ‘Big One’ – the mythical quake depicted in the movie ‘San Andreas’ – could be about to hit. In another sign of impending disaster, ten ‘mini quakes’ struck the same area last week. That swarm included one 4.6-magnitude quake that was felt in San Francisco more than 90 miles away.
“This one has been a quite productive aftershock sequence,” said Ole Kaven, a US Geological Survey seismologist.
“We suspect there will be aftershocks in the 2 to 3 [magnitude] range for at least a few more weeks,” he said.
Fortunately, nobody was injured in the quake storm.
Last week’s swarm hit California’s Monterey County on Monday at 11:31 am ET about 13 miles northeast of Gonzales, near Salinas.
It dramatically increases the likelihood of a major quake in California, at least temporarily, experts claimed.
The initial 4.6-magnitude quake was followed by nine smaller aftershocks.
The largest of the tremors measured magnitude 2.8, according to Annemarie Baltay, a seismologist with the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
The quake happened at a depth of around 4 miles directly on top of the fault, close to a region where the Calaveras Fault branches off.
Experts have previously warned that any activity on the fault line is cause for concern.
“Any time there is significant seismic activity in the vicinity of the San Andreas fault, we seismologists get nervous,” Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Centre, said, according to the Mail.
It would be terrible if CA broke off from CONUS and floated down to Antarctica. Once there, the libs could protest the living conditions of the Emperor Penguins, shivering in the cold and their bodily deposits littering the beauitiful white (racist) landscape.
Within a few years, the Penguins would move to an island away from the obnoxious humans that ruined their home. While the libs kept bemoaning the fate of the world due to GloBull Warming, the average temp in Antarctica dropped another 20 degrees F, thereby causing 80% of the citizens to perish.
Who know, the Penguins might return and revive the continent.
The warm of quakes in Commiefornia is making me hopeful.
Hopeful? Of what? Tens of millions of people live in that precarious area, and you wish them death? Well, how’s THAT for tolerance!
The Big One is like the always-impending stock market crash. I live practically on top of the SA fault. Yawn. I can only fret about a certain number of things at one time.
Like the people that live in a flood zone , lost everything I own 8 times ok and you did not move after the 2nd or 3 rd total loss ??? Fuck You Dummy ?
I do not wish disaster to strike anyone anywhere and realize some have little choice while others live at the beach and want me to provide relief because your shit washed out to sea . You were the same asshole that told me that was your private beach as you wanted tax payer funds to pump sand back from storm erosion ! Fuck You too !
Life has choices and inherent risks or rewards for those choices . I realize as a civilized nation we are connected in many ways and need to render assistance to our fellow countrymen in peril . Just not for those in peril by their own stupidity or ignorance !
The farmers that till thousands of acres and are hit with issues from weather etc … we all eat and depend on their combined efforts but we do not depend on the Hollywood Star with the beach house that slides into the Pacific !
It’s like losing sleep over the Yellowstone super volcano.
I’ve got a couple beautiful windows going up for auction in San Fran in mid Jan, hope it holds off for a bit. I know, it’s all about me.
I know. I’m in the Bay Area for a few days. Let the earthquake hold off until mid December.
Iska, is it for some kind of gay affair?
I’m a little confused about the alarm being expressed over this, unless there is something very specific about the relation between quake sites and the fault. I lived in Salinas about 20-25 years ago and every weekend in the local newspaper there was a color-coded map of the local area listed along with the upcoming week’s weather report. The graphic showed the location and intensity of earthquakes for the preceding week, and there were typically a dozen or more every single week that were between 2 and 3 on the Richter scale, with some occasionally higher.
Need a good ripper to tear the Chinese Port of Long Beach off into the ocean.
The resulting JIT shipping disaster would quickly seperate the Survivors from the Fertilizer.
Be a helluva mess, but things need to change, for better or worse….
Fucking Russians.
The Stock Market Big One will destroy the wealth of the Exploiters and many will prefer suicide over work. The California Big One will destroy the Left Coast and kill millions of liberals. Regular Americans repeatedly voted against liberalism and warned liberals about sinning against God and country; but they mocked us and increased their “in your face” destructive liberalism. When God and greed destroys them, we won’t morn it: we will appreciate it.
The “What Earthquake Magnitudes Mean” listing is somewhat deceiving. Earthquakes on the east coast of the US, for example, are much more widely felt and reverberate more intensely due to the underlying bedrock vs. less dense strata in the west coast. The 5.9 we had here in Virginia in 2011 was felt all the way to Toronto, Canada.
https://www.livescience.com/15710-earthquake-hits-virginia-east-coast.html