1000-year earthquake predicted for southern California
San Andreas and San Jacinto faults are at the highest tectonic stress levels in over a millennium
‘The system is critically stressed’: San Andreas and San Jacinto faults scarily close to major earthquake, study finds
The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture at one fault could propagate to the other, researchers found.
Sascha Pare
"Our results show that stress levels on multiple fault segments are now at or above the highest values seen in the past millennium and that the region may be capable of a large through-going rupture involving both fault systems," study first author Liliane Burkhard, a planetary geologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said in a statement. … Southern California's last "big one" was a magnitude 7.9 event in 1857, …
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