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Is This The Big One?

Posted by timothy on from the shaky-ground dept.

Quivering Coward writes "There has been a marked increase in seismic activity in southern California in the past several days," pointing to this map from Caltech Earthquake Net, including a 5.2 and 3.6 this morning (2004/06/15). "Could this be the big one? Is 'the big one' ever going to happen? NASA is doing their part to predict the future of Earthquakes."

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  1. So what? by dacarr · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's an earthquake. BFD. Yes, during Northridge, it levelled an apartment building, knocked over a freeway interchange ramp or two, and toppled the big screen at Anaheim Stadium, but that was really it. The damage and death toll for that six pointer was trivial. And ten years ago, I heard it predicted by seismologists that there would be a 50/50 chance of a major earthquake hitting within the next thirty years.

    I mean, come on, people, are we expecting The Big One to cause the entire state of California to break away at its borders, and we start floating around the Pacific Ocean in some sort of bad remake of Space:1999, with Arnold Schwarzenneger in charge of Earth Base California or something?

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  2. Re:Run by cluckshot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You might have a day or two left but well the Lunar Land tides maxed on June 3 and they do it again on July 1. The orbital max differential occurred on June 15 for apogee and will max for Paragee on July 1. I suppose with all the other data we see a high probablility of Earthquake as the moon approaches the close approach on July 1.

    The time to be concerned is when the moon is at 45 Deg to the longitude of So. CA.

    Click on the Earth Moon Viewer Apogee/Paragee Calc if you want to check out the exact times etc.

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  3. Re:Science Fiction can inform us by sadler121 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe those of us in Chicago ought to have life rafts...

    Though this is a joke, one musten forget the The New Madrid Fault Line, and how many geologists believe that a "big one" could eminate from there, causing much more damage, seeing that buildings in the midwest aren't as "earth quake" proof as those in the west.

  4. The San Andreas fault is nice and all, but by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about the New Madrid fault? It's overdue for a 7+ magnitude earthquake, and it's in the middle of America.