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Incidentally, while obviously it's useful to prepare for the Big One around LA, it's probably not going to get as big as Japan."What's especially important in the U.S. is we expect an even larger earthquake on our own Cascadia Subduction Zone," said Heaton, specifying that related hazards are located in Northern California, Oregon, Washington and British Colombia - not along the San Andreas fault that runs through inland Southern and Central California.
"We don't believe we could have an 8.9 here," Heaton said.
"If you want the Big One, you'll have to go to Portland," remarked Lucy Jones, chief scientist for the USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project for Southern California.
Graves explained that known faults in Southern and Central California simply don't have long structures like the Subduction Zone that caused the Japan quake.
"We just don't have these types of structures in Southern California. "I wouldn't say it's impossible, but certainly it would be unprecedented," he said.
"Caltech Scientists Eagerly Await Lessons from Monster Quake," San Gabriel Valley News.
Earthquakes in the Northwest won't be a surprise to those familiar with another geological catastrophes, but 9.0 is still pretty huge to consider for that areas, and a quake that large would affect a wide range, as it has in Japan.
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"We don't believe we could have an 8.9 here," Heaton said.
"If you want the Big One, you'll have to go to Portland," remarked Lucy Jones, chief scientist for the USGS Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project for Southern California.
Graves explained that known faults in Southern and Central California simply don't have long structures like the Subduction Zone that caused the Japan quake.
"We just don't have these types of structures in Southern California. "I wouldn't say it's impossible, but certainly it would be unprecedented," he said.
"Caltech Scientists Eagerly Await Lessons from Monster Quake," San Gabriel Valley News.
Earthquakes in the Northwest won't be a surprise to those familiar with another geological catastrophes, but 9.0 is still pretty huge to consider for that areas, and a quake that large would affect a wide range, as it has in Japan.
This journal has moved to Dreamwidth. Entry originally posted at http://tablesaw.dreamwidth.org/476125.html.
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