Hum,
just a reminder that the predicted quake is only a month away from hitting the LA area...
So sell your house now!
I`ve just read an article that says that about 95 percent of the slippage at a site on the San Andreas fault northwest of Los Angeles occurs in big earthquakes.
It seems that a `common-sense` notion among many Californians is that frequent small earthquakes allow a fault to slowly relieve accumulating strain, thereby making large earthquakes less likely.
New research suggests that this is not the case for a long stretch of the San Andreas fault in Southern California.
Paleoseismic research showed that along the section of the fault nearest Los Angeles the average period between large earthquakes is just 130 years. Ominously, 147 years have already passed since the latest large rupture, in 1857.
Get out now!
