A new study suggests that Los Angeles (LA) and other parts of California could be hit by a major earthquake soon.
Scientists from the California of Institute of Technology have identified more than 1,200 shallow quakes in the previous eight months. These shallow quakes were identified about one mile below the surface, which can develop and produce passageways for more serious ruptures on the surface.
The team examined Long Beach and Seal Beach, two LA suburbs that are situated along the Newport-Inglewood fault.
Earlier studies have suggested that this fault is capable of up to a 7.4-magnitude earthquake, which has an energy equivalent of around 32 Hiroshima atomic bombs.
According to Susan Hough, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) seismologist, shallow quakes can feel like “a bomb directly under a city.” While the name doesn’t sound alarming, shallow quakes can build up to create more pathways for intense earthquakes to rupture on the surface.
The shallow quakes earlier avoided detection of the regional seismic network due to urban noise from ships, exploration devices and other sonar technologies. By investigating during evening hours when noise levels are low, the team was able to identify 1,262 events.
The team detected the shallow earthquakes using three dense nodal seismic arrays placed temporarily in the Long Beach-Seal Beach area. Shallow earthquakes are triggered by stresses on the fault rising slowly in response to the slow movement of tectonic plates, with sliding starting when these stresses surpass static friction.
The scientists also found new faults between the Los Alamitos fault and the Newport-Inglewood fault, and north of the Garden Grove fault. They said other faults in southern California could be examined for these very shallow quakes to better characterize seismic hazards.
Bay Area is overdue for an earthquake of up to 6.7 magnitude
While the research focuses on L.A. area, a report from the USGS released this month said the Bay Area is overdue for an earthquake of up to 6.7 magnitude. It could strike on or before 2030. (Related: Catastrophic earthquake overdue for California, geologists warn: Are you prepared yet?)
The people of Alameda could be in the way of the destructive event. The small city was previously a peninsula linked to Oakland by a small landmass that was dredged out to lengthen a shipping strait more than a century ago.
Christine Goulet, the director of earthquake sciences at USGS, told a Bay Area paper that Alameda is in danger of crumbling in on itself when an earthquake finally strikes.
“With fill, it’s a little like a house of cards,” Goulet said.
According to Goulet, the wet marshland pumped from the bottom of the San Francisco Bay during the early part of the 20th century was possibly not packed down properly. Thus, most of the six-mile-wide landmass is in danger of liquefaction – a phenomenon that happens under severe shaking that makes waterlogged soil lose its strength and behave like a liquid.
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Let the shaking begin, I’ve been waiting 40 years for LA and SF to crumble into the Pacific.
Dutchsinse is well worth watching. He has found EQ energy ” flows ” across the planet, and thus can often predict where quakes may be seen next.
Any track record?
Wife is going to be in Pasadena visiting her sister next week. It needs to hold off until after that at least.
I’m going to call bullshit. How many times have we heard of this? Btw, there is NO IMPENDING DOOM on the way, IN ANY WAY.
They’re trying to predict earthquakes, not “impending doom.”
And as a person who was smack dab in the ’94 Northridge quake
in a cheap N. Hollywood apartment, I was convinced my doom was nigh.
What are the chances that every single doom scenario over the last 10 years has not come to fruition? Food doom, diesel doom, vax doom, covid doom, financial doom, housing doom and on and on and on.
There are only 2 doom scenarios that I believe are possible…CBDC doom and a looong slow financial decline doom for a larger and larger portion of society.
Doom Porn is huge $$$$
Just ask Alex Jones.
Better still … just ask Bill from the Gates of Hell and the WHO and TheFauci and PFE and MRNA and the CDC and all of its employees who are patent holders of the various jabs invented by the BigPharma folks who pay their salaries …
The “doom porn industry” hit the jackpot on September 11, 2001.
if the doomitory is tiny, cubicle-roomed, as so many insulate-matriculate slots are, & there’s barely room for a cheapo hotplate, the frogpot boil is even more seductive than the roomier kind.
That’s some Kamala Harris worthy word salad right there.
only if youse a kh voter.
Stop day drinking, you’ll live longer…….never mind, keep day drinking.
no alcohol here. but it does feature prominently, same nein letters as yours, in that 12-step group.
stay shallow, my friendo. minimize your great risk of drowning.
50-60 people killed in an earthquake like the Loma Prieta/Northridge is not “doom.”
’71 Sylmar quake was the first one I remember (I was 15) but the Northridge quake really got my attention. 45 miles from the epicenter it seemed to go on and on and we had some things fall off the walls and tables.
’87 Whittier quake was the most violent that I felt because I was close to the epicenter.
I was in Yosemite Valley during the ’83 Coalinga quake and saw motorhomes bouncing off the ground, dust shaken out of the trees and rock slides all around the valley.
And, yet, given the status of that as a ‘big one’ … you’re still here 29 years later …
Fear porn is a great business model …
I was in 2 story wood structure in West LA….and if felt like a freight train was running through the living room…..Every car alarm went off and I figured we were dead. I took the motorcycle up to the Valley and saw the damage…..you had it worse of course being closer to Northridge.
Yes, mine was also 2-story… and the freight train sound and every joint, joist and rafter squeaking like the building was going to come down any second.
The scariest ten seconds of my life.
Hurry up, I have a trip planned to Death Valley before the end of the year, hate to be out there for that…..
You’ll be safe there. Not good if you are flying out of LA though.
Good!
Driving and camping!
All the extra snow runoff is going to saturate the ground redistributing the weight that will be a catalyst for the quakes.
See, I can make up BS stories just as well as the media.
Long Beach native here. Grandparents had pictures of thousands of people on the beach to see the tidal wave (didn’t happen) that was going to come after the 1933 earthquake, before every body retreated to Signal Hill.
Seal Beach always has little tar blobs in the sand that stick to your feet, we would use lighter fluid to get it off.
There is still a lot of oil drilling along the fault and PCH by Huntington Beach to this day.
Balboa Island in Newport Beach will surely liquify into Newport Bay when the big one happens.
A cousin of mine is a commercial hard hat diver for Unocal offshore rigs in Santa Barbara channel and says well heads of old defunct deposits are blowing off. Pressure/heat building in the crust.
Moved to Oregon after the Rodney King riots. Never looked back.
A real ‘ big one ‘ could trigger the entire Cascadia subduction zone. Ugly.
There was a Virginia quake in 2011 , not too big a 2.0 – 3.0 but we felt it all up the East coast as the shock waves moved through the sandy soil.
Cascadia is a huge threat. Friend of mine was public works director for a decent sized Oregon coast city and the planners say everyone west of I5 should plan to be on their own for up to 30 days following a major Cascadia event.
I was north of Charlotte for an outdoor meeting around a swimming pool. Had no idea what was happening. Sloshing & vibrating. One attendee grew up in LA and said “earthquake”.
Don’t care about the Left Coast…I’d notice if the New Madrid decided to rock.
So Mid Westerner are ya now?
Enjoy your can of cold spaghettios after a tornado destroys your single wide.
I chose the Heartland because the odds of my survival are 10x that of the populated areas…in a year you’ll be grateful for a “can of cold spaghettios and a single wide.” Try harder not to be a total a**hole.
Fuck off asshole
Let her rip !
Always gloom ‘n doom. But, would the heavy snowfall & literal monsoons over the winter contribute to geologic instability? I know they only filter down to the shallow aquifer in such a short timeframe (I’ve hired geologists to supervise petroleum UST excavations since 1989, so know enough to be ignorant).
Educate me if this is logical.
‘This Article Is Reprinted From August 22, 1948’ …
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After NEW CALIFORNIA has beach front property after the COMING JUDGEMENT, and the blue is GONE in a day…it will look something like this:
If you think this fault line is an accident…you are prophetically faulty…just saying…
The flooded areas [on the last map] exactly follow county lines?
How convenient.