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Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A.
Randolpho writes "Whether you like the city or not, you can't say Los Angeles doesn't have a fault. It does, and it's one of earth-shattering proportions. Geologists have confirmed that LA was built right over a faultline, which they're calling the Puente Hills Blind Thrust System; it runs from northern Orange County through Los Angeles on up to Beverly Hills, and has a habbit of ripping earthquakes as large as 7.5 on the Richter Scale every 10 thousand years or so. And the last one was about 8 thousand years ago."
...since we seem to have significant earthquakes every decade here in SoCal I'm not too concerned about a 7.5 in the next 2 millenia.
The meme police, They live inside of my head
Yeah. Good insight.
Uh-huh.
They confuse a tar pit with volcanic activity.
They represent a fallen glass and steel building as a good deflector for flowing lava.
And they didn't even get the geography of LA right.
Whoever did the science research and fact-checking for that film had an undergraduate degree in medieval poetry or something, but certainly not geology.
Might as well watch Star Trek to learn about quantum theory.
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
www.fogbound.net
how long you think before someone registers PuenteHillsBlindThrustSystem.com and puts up an index embedded audio snippet that makes some rumble sounds and then says, "heh. just kidding."