(OPINION) Will “the Big One” soon hit the west coast? While most people are fixated on the political drama that is currently unfolding in Washington, very important events are happening elsewhere too.
Within the past 7 days, California and Nevada have been hit by more than 900 earthquakes. And just within the past 24 hours, there have been four notable earthquakes in southern California.
We are being told that these quakes are “raising fears of a serious seismic incident on the San Andreas fault”…
Another earthquake has hit California – the fourth in the space of just 24 hours.
The latest – a Magnitude 2.6 quake – hit 28 km SSW of Los Banos. It comes after a third earthquake rocked San Bernardino and the area was hit by two others, raising fears of a serious seismic incident on the San Andreas fault.
I have been one of the leading voices in warning about what will happen when the San Andreas fault finally “unzips” all at once.
Today, I asked Google AI about the potential danger the West Coast is facing, and this is the answer that I received…
According to scientific research, while not guaranteed, the San Andreas Fault could potentially rupture all at once, causing a massive earthquake sometimes called “The Big One,”
potentially reaching a magnitude of 8.3 if the entire fault from the Mexico border to Northern California breaks simultaneously; however, this scenario is still under debate among scientists and depends on complex geological factors.
If the San Andreas Fault does “rupture all at once”,”scientists have warned uhat it could produce an earthquake towerful enough to cause the ground on the western side of the Sault to drop several feet suddenly.
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Of course the San Andreas Fault is not the only fault line that we need to be watching.
In fact, the latest earthquake swarm in southern California occurred in an area that has a number of very dangerous fault lines running through it…
Though these quakes happened on the San Andreas fault line, San Bernadino is near a number of fault lines running through California that frequently cause earthquakes,
including the Arrowhead fault, the Waterman Canyon fault, the San Jacinto fault, the Santa Ana fault, the Cleghorn fault, and the Tunnel Ridge fault.
And let’s not forget the Puente Hills thrust fault.
According to seismologist Lucy Jones, that is the most dangerous fault in the entire region…
The quake ruptured on a small section of a fault associated with the Puente Hills thrust fault system, which has long been cited as a major seismic hazard for Southern California because it runs through heavily populated areas and is capable of a huge quake.
“It’s a reminder that this is actually our most dangerous fault,” earthquake expert Lucy Jones said, surpassing the San Andreas.
The Puente Hills thrust fault is considered to be exceptionally dangerous because it sits directly under heavily populated residential neighborhoods in northeast Los Angeles.
If you live in southern California, it so important for you to understand that it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” strikes.
And as I have extensively documented, seismic activity along the west coast also has the potential to create a gigantic tsunami. READ MORE
