‘Earthquake Storm’ Warns Big Quake May Hit Southern California
by CHRISS W. STREET
BreitBart.com
1 Oct 2016
The U.S. Geological Survey put Southern California cities on an unusually high alert for a potential “big earthquake,” as an “earthquake storm” broke out near the Salton Sea late in the week.
Located on the 800-mile-long San Andreas, the Southern tip of the Salton Sea suffered 142 quakes that ranged in strength from a magnitude of 1.4 to 4.3 on the Richter Scale since September 26, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Cal Tech scientists estimate that due to the concentration of the tremblors, Southern California has a risk of between 0.03 and 1 percent that the area will suffer a 7.0 magnitude quake in the near future. That may not sound like such a high probability, but it was a 7.8 magnitude quake that destroyed the Bay Area in 1906.
The turn-of-the-century Great San Francisco Earthquake and resulting fires caused an estimated 3,000 deaths and $524 million in property loss. Buildings and structures were damaged in all parts of the City and County of San Francisco. In the downtown business district, which was built on ground made by filling in the cove of Yerba Buena, pavements were buckled, arched, and fissured; brick and frame houses were extensively or destroyed; sewers and water mains were broken; and gas pipelines caught on fire and caused a conflagration.
Ground movements between three feet up and down, plus 15 feet sideways, were common in the City. The catastrophic quake caused similar damage for almost 100 miles, from lightly populated Mendocino County to Santa Clara County.
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