Earthquake – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:05:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png Earthquake – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 Scientists Warn That a 9.0 Earthquake Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Could Send a 100 Foot Tall Tsunami Slamming Into the West Coast https://americanconservativemovement.com/scientists-warn-that-a-9-0-earthquake-along-the-cascadia-subduction-zone-could-send-a-100-foot-tall-tsunami-slamming-into-the-west-coast/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/scientists-warn-that-a-9-0-earthquake-along-the-cascadia-subduction-zone-could-send-a-100-foot-tall-tsunami-slamming-into-the-west-coast/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:05:15 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=206054 (End of the American Dream)—We are being told that someday an absolutely massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone will send a gigantic wall of water toward the west coast of the United States.  We are talking about a disaster that would be greater than anything we have ever witnessed in the entire history of our country so far, and scientists are openly warning us that it is just a matter of time before this happens.

It is being projected that the wall of water could be up to 100 feet tall, and it will cause immense devastation.  Buildings will be flattened, vehicles will be picked up and tossed around like toys, and countless numbers of people will instantly go to their watery graves.  If you are directly in the path of such a tsunami, there will be no escape.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has been making lots of headlines lately.  The following comes from an article that was recently posted by NBC News…

A silent colossus lurks off the Pacific coast, threatening hundreds of miles of coastline with tsunamis and devastating earthquakes.

For decades, scientists have warned about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs offshore along the coast from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. When the fault — or even a portion of it — next snaps, it will reshape life in Oregon, Washington and Northern California.

It has been more than 300 years since we have seen a megathrust earthquake happen along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and so for most of us it is difficult to imagine what that would look like.

According to IFL Science, such an earthquake could produce tsunami waves that travel at speeds of up to 500 miles an hour…

Megathrust earthquakes are the most powerful on Earth and they arise from subduction zones, where one of Earth’s plates is slipping over another. When rock on a convergent plate boundary gets compressed and bent, it builds up elastic energy. When this gets too much, there is an abrupt release as the overriding plate slides up the fault.

As the plate slips and releases, it generates enormous amounts of energy that goes out into the surrounding seawater. That energy displaces water as it rises to the sea surface, raising it above the normal surface level. It then comes crashing down thanks to gravity, sending the energy shooting out horizontally in the form of a tsunami.

The resulting waves can travel over 804 kilometers per hour (500 miles per hour).

I am sitting here trying to imagine what a wall of water traveling at 500 miles per hour would look like, and I am having a very difficult time envisioning it.

In addition to moving at astonishing speed, we are also being told that the wall of water could be “100 feet high or more”…

The plates can periodically lock up and build stress over wide areas―eventually to be released when they finally lurch against each other. The result: the world’s greatest earthquakes, shaking both seabed and land, and generating tsunamis 100 feet high or more.

A team of scientists that has been studying the Cascadia Subduction Zone just released their findings, and what they discovered is extremely alarming.

They found that the Cascadia Subduction Zone is actually made up of four different segments, and that actually makes it even more dangerous than previously believed…

Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone – a 600-mile fault line extending from southern Canada to northern California – in never before seen detail.

It has revealed that the fault splits into four segments instead of being one continuous strip like most fault lines. The discovery could prove more catastrophic because the tectonic plates can slide under each other, creating more pressure and more severe earthquakes.

The researchers concluded the Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential to unleash a nine-plus magnitude quake.

This particular team of scientists is also warning that when the next megathrust earthquake happens in the region it could cause more than 80 billion dollars in damage…

If an earthquake of over 9 magnitude struck the West Coast US it could generate tsunamis reaching 100 feet high or more, kill more than 10,000 people and cause over $80 billion in damages in just Oregon and Washington alone.

Disaster emergency plans in Oregon and Washington warn that in the aftermath of a quake that big, they could face a wave of long-term deaths due to disease from exposure to dead bodies, animal carcasses, contaminated water and Hazmat spills from commercial, industrial and household sources.

I know that this sounds really bad, but others actually believe that the damage will be even worse.

In an article that I published last year, I included a very ominous quote from the former head of FEMA’s Region X.  He once warned  that when a really big earthquake finally strikes the Cascadia Subduction Zone “everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast”…

If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.

…By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

In the Pacific Northwest, everything west of Interstate 5 covers some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people.

This isn’t a hypothetical scenario which may or may not happen someday.

Scientists assure us that it is just a matter of time before a big quake happens.

And I am entirely convinced that it will happen sooner rather than later, because our planet has become very unstable.

As I discussed earlier this week, the number of “billion dollar disasters” hit an all-time high in 2023.

Sadly, we will probably break that record again this year.

If you live in a high risk area, you may want to take note of what is happening.

Things have been relatively quiet along the west coast for a while, but someday disaster will suddenly strike and millions of lives will be completely turned upside down.

Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

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Christina Amira Khalil quickly deleted her offending Tweet but not before getting lambasted by the masses. She posted:

“I experienced my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes. The climate crisis is real. The weirdest experience ever.”

Christina Amira Khalil

Community Notes posted that New Jersey is, of course, on a fault line. And to their credit they even noted what most Americans know, that climate change has nothing to do with earthquakes even if you believe in climate change at all.

Technically, she’s running for the Green Party but the vast majority of her support will come from Democrats. But if any of those voters are on Twitter they might think twice before voting for this “moron.”

RINO Dan Crenshaw found himself on the right side of a debate for once by noting he was being facetious when calling out climate change for the earthquake earlier in the day.

Even a broken clock is accurate twice a day.

Khalil has apparently been blocking people who called her out.

Heads may roll at The Babylon Bee…

Never underestimate the idiocy of radical leftists.

]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/not-satire-u-s-senate-candidate-blames-climate-change-for-nj-earthquake/feed/ 2 202504 If You Feel Like Losing Some Brain Cells, See What This Aspiring Senator Blamed for the East Coast Earthquake https://americanconservativemovement.com/if-you-feel-like-losing-some-brain-cells-see-what-this-aspiring-senator-blamed-for-the-east-coast-earthquake/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/if-you-feel-like-losing-some-brain-cells-see-what-this-aspiring-senator-blamed-for-the-east-coast-earthquake/#respond Sat, 06 Apr 2024 03:30:18 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=202488 DCNF(DCNF)—A candidate running for Senate in New Jersey attributed Friday’s east coast earthquake to climate change.

Christina Khalil, who is running for a Senate seat in New Jersey as a member of the Green Party, blamed the “climate crisis” for the unusual magnitude 4.8 earthquake that struck her state and several others bordering it on Friday. Khalil is hoping to take the seat currently occupied by longtime Democratic New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, who now faces numerous charges related to alleged bribery schemes involving Qatar and Egypt.

“I experienced my first earthquake in NJ. We never get earthquakes. The climate crisis is real,” Khalil wrote in a post shared on X, formerly Twitter. “The weirdest experience ever.”

https://twitter.com/Christina4NJ/status/1776266970226204841

While Khalil suggests that climate change is responsible for the tremor, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) rejects that there is any connection between climate conditions and seismic activity.

“With the advent of seismology — the study of earthquakes — we now know that most quakes are caused by tectonic processes — forces within the solid Earth that drive changes in the structure of Earth’s crust, primarily the rupture of underground rock masses along faults,” according to Alan Buis of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We also know that most earthquakes occur far beneath Earth’s surface, well beyond the influence of surface temperatures and conditions. Finally, we know the statistical distribution of earthquakes is approximately equal across all types of weather conditions. Myth busted.”

The myth that weather and earthquakes are linked spans back to antiquity, according to Buis. Aristotle, a philosopher who lived in Ancient Greece, “proposed in the 4th century B.C. that earthquakes were caused by trapped winds escaping from subterranean caves.”

Menendez — whose job approval numbers have tanked in the wake of the scandal — recently announced that he will not be running for reelection as a Democrat, and Tammy Murphy, the wife of Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, withdrew from the race in March. Democratic New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim is the frontrunner in the Senate race, according to The Hill.

Khlail’s campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/if-you-feel-like-losing-some-brain-cells-see-what-this-aspiring-senator-blamed-for-the-east-coast-earthquake/feed/ 0 202488 Has the Stage Been Set for “The Big One” to Hit California? https://americanconservativemovement.com/has-the-stage-been-set-for-the-big-one-to-hit-california/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/has-the-stage-been-set-for-the-big-one-to-hit-california/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:29:30 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=201006 Editor’s Note: As is very often the case, Michael Snyder’s article below will be labeled by some as “fearmongering.” Snyder has a flair for the dramatic with his writing, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. And unlike Climate Change Cultist or doomsday fearmongers, he bases his observations on demonstrable facts, so take from Snyder’s speculation what you will. I, for one, will add this to the growing list of reasons to leave Commiefornia soon. Here’s Snyder…

Trillions of gallons of rain have already fallen on the state of California, and more rain continues to fall as I write this article.  Billions of dollars in damage has already been done, but of even greater concern is what all of this water could mean for southern California’s fault lines.  As you will see below, geophysicists have discovered that the additional weight that flooding puts on fault lines can help trigger earthquakes.  Of course we have been warned for many years that “the Big One” is way overdue in southern California, and when it finally happens it will be a disaster unlike anything we have ever seen before.

Water is very heavy.  If you doubt this, just try lugging a couple of gallons of water around with you for a while.

Now trillions of gallons of rain have poured down on California, and all of that added weight is going to put additional stress on the fault lines in the southern portion of the state.

A number of years ago, a team of geophysicists determined that flooding helped trigger major earthquakes in southern California “at least three times in the past 2,000 years”…

Geophysicists have linked historical earthquakes on the southern section of California’s famed San Andreas fault to ancient floods from the nearby Colorado River.

The work has broad implications for understanding how floods or reservoirs relate to quakes — a topic that gained new relevance in 2008, after a massive earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed more than 80,000 people. Some geologists have proposed that impounding water behind a newly built dam there helped hasten the quake.

Now, new work in southern California suggests that at least three times in the past 2,000 years, the weight of river water spreading across floodplains seems to have helped trigger earthquakes in the region.

Geophysicist Daniel Brothers was one of the scientists that worked on this study, and he was very confident about what his team discovered…

“We found quakes happened about every 100 to 200 years and were correlated with floods,” says Brothers. “The Colorado River spills, loads the crust and then there is a rupture.” He says the team is “very confident” in its evidence for the existence of three flood-derived quakes, of roughly magnitude 6, which happened about 600 years ago, 1,100 years ago and 1,200–1,900 years ago. “Sediments don’t lie,” he says.

With all of that in mind, let’s talk about what has just happened in southern California.

Some of the rainfall totals that we have seen so far are just staggering…

The highest total came at the Cogswell Dam above Pasadena. NWS monitors at that site recorded 13.15 inches of rain in the past 72 hours.

A little farther south, Beverly Hills has seen 8.61 inches of rainfall, Culver City 7.71 inches and Downtown L.A. to the east has endured 8.13 inches.

That means that in just three days, downtown Los Angeles has received more than half of its 30-year average seasonal rainfall, which is 14.25 inches.

And it is being reported that UCLA’s weather station experienced “a 1-in-1,000 year rainfall event”…

The 11.87 inches that fell in 24 hours at UCLA’s weather station was a 1-in-1,000 year rainfall event. Technically known as a “1,000-year recurrence interval event,” according to meteorologist Jacob Feuerstein, a 1-in-1,000-year rain event is a statistical way of expressing the probability of such a huge rainfall occurring in any given year in a given location, according to NOAA.

That is certainly a lot of rain!

Overall, it has been estimated that approximately 5.6 trillion gallons of rain fell on California in a 48 hour period…

A rough calculation estimates that 5.6 trillion gallons of water has fallen across California the past two days, according to FOX Weather meteorologist Greg Diamond.

Of course that is not a final number.

More rain continued to fall after that estimate was made, and it is still raining in California as I write this article.

What we are witnessing is truly unprecedented, and all of this water is going to put immense pressure on southern California’s fault lines.

We’ll get back to that in a minute.

But first, let me talk a bit about the damage that all of this water has already caused.

In an article that I posted a few days ago, I speculated that this disaster would cause billions of dollars of damage in the state, and it appears that is precisely what has happened…

AccuWeather estimates the preliminary total damage and economic loss from the intense storms and record rainfall in California this week will be between $9 billion and $11 billion.

Right now, there are apocalyptic scenes all over southern California.

Flash floods, mudslides and fallen trees have caused immense amounts of destruction.

Even if nothing else happens, this is going to be one of the costliest natural disasters that we have seen in a long time.

But what if the weight of all this water triggers “the Big One” at some point?

It has been reported that when “the Big One” strikes it could literally “plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly”…

The Big One may be overdue to hit California, but scientists near LA have found a new risk for the area during a major earthquake.

They claim that if a major tremor hits the area, it could plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly.

The discovery was made after studying the Newport-Inglewood fault, which has long been believed to be one of Southern California’s danger zones.

A lot of people seem to think that a part of the state could break off like a cracker and fall into the Pacific Ocean.

But that is not how it would work.

According to Cal State Fullerton professor Matt Kirby, land on the western side of a major fault line would suddenly drop by up to three feet and that would allow the Pacific Ocean to come rushing in…

The study showed that land within major Californian seismic faults could sink by 1.5 and three feet instantly.

The last known major quake occurred on the San Andreas fault in 1857.

Seismologists estimate the 800 mile-long San Andreas, which runs most of the length of the state, should see a large quake roughly every 150 years.

‘It´s something that would happen relatively instantaneously,’ Kirby said.

‘Probably today if it happened, you would see seawater rushing in.’

As I have discussed in multiple books, scientists have repeatedly warned us that this is going to happen someday.

It is just a matter of time.

Will a disaster of this magnitude happen in 2024?

Let’s hope not, but I will definitely be watching southern California very closely now that all of this rain has fallen.

When it finally arrives, “the Big One” could hit without warning, and those living right along the coast may only have moments before the Pacific Ocean starts rushing over them.

Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.

]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/has-the-stage-been-set-for-the-big-one-to-hit-california/feed/ 3 201006 Wake Up! Highly Destructive Natural Disasters Are Suddenly Striking Areas All Over the Earth https://americanconservativemovement.com/wake-up-highly-destructive-natural-disasters-are-suddenly-striking-areas-all-over-the-earth/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/wake-up-highly-destructive-natural-disasters-are-suddenly-striking-areas-all-over-the-earth/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:10:54 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=196565 Why are so many historic natural disasters suddenly hitting us one after another?  For a moment, I would like for you to think about what we have seen over just the past several weeks.  The wildfires on Maui were the deadliest in the entire history of the United States.  Then Hilary absolutely pummeled southern California, Idalia caused immense damage along the Gulf Coast of Florida, and now Hurricane Lee is threatening the east coast.  If it actually hits a major population center in the Northeast, we could see immense devastation.  Meanwhile, large earthquakes are striking without warning all over the globe.  On Friday night at 11:11 local time, a highly destructive magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Morocco…

On Friday, around 11:11 p.m. local time, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake exploded through the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, not far from the populous city of Marrakesh. People as far away as Spain and Portugal felt a strange vibration ripple beneath their feet. But millions in Morocco felt the planet shake and splinter, jolt and disintegrate, before thousands of the most unfortunate were greeted by tectonic rage. At least 2,100 people are dead, and that number is expected to rise. According to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center, an NGO, several aftershocks convulsed through the area earlier today.

This was a really big one. It was clearly felt by countless people in both Spain and Portugal.

The final death toll will not be known for quite a while, but it is rising with each passing hour.

According to the USGS, this was the biggest earthquake that Morocco has experienced in more than 100 years…

The US Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 when it hit at 11:11 p.m. (2211 GMT), with shaking that lasted several seconds. The US agency reported that a magnitude-4.9 aftershock hit 19 minutes later and that the earthquake was the largest to hit Morocco in more than 100 years.

The epicenter of Friday’s tremor was high in the Atlas Mountains, about 40 miles south of Marrakech. It was also near Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa, and Oukaimeden, a popular Moroccan ski resort.

In the city of Marrakesh, tall buildings violently crumbled to the ground as the ground shook with great force…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXxdESqRwmE

When something like this happens, your life can be turned upside down in a single moment.

Can you imagine what it must be like to lose your home and your family without any warning whatsoever?…

In mere moments, entire neighborhoods vanish. Entire families are exterminated. Some may be entombed under the ruins of the place in which they grew up or raised their children or reunited with old friends. Survivors of the cataclysmic back-to-back earthquakes in Turkey and Syria this February have told reporters what happens next:. People trapped in the rubble wait in purgatory, wondering which of their loved ones may still be breathing; many perish inside these hollows of concrete, mud, silt, metal, and brick. And those who aren’t physically trapped, who just happened to be far from any susceptible buildings, are still caught in a desperate dread, questioning the reality that seemed immovable just a moment ago. What just happened? Do I still have a home? Is my daughter okay? Is my dog still alive? Where is my wife? I just saw her; we just spoke; she was right there.

The survivors in this region of Morocco need our prayers.

This is a country that has not seen a tragedy like this in any of our lifetimes, and the royal family has just declared “three days of national mourning”…

Morocco’s royal family declared three days of national mourning after the deadly earthquake.

‘Three days of national mourning have been decided, with flags to fly at half-mast on all public buildings,’ said a statement published by the official MAP news agency after King Mohamed VI chaired a meeting to discuss the disaster.

Of course this was not the only major quake that we have seen in the past few days.

On Friday, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit northern California…

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was recorded in Northern California Friday morning. The quake was recorded at 10:24 a.m. about 7.5 miles west-southwest of the community of Fall River Mills in Shasta County,

at a depth of over nine miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The area is about 50 miles northeast of Redding, and about 290 miles north of Sacramento.

According to the USGS Felt Report, close to two hundred people had reported feeling shaking in the first half hour after the quake, with the majority of the reports coming from Shasta County, and a few reports from as far away as Chico and some communities in Oregon close to Medford.

As I keep reminding my readers, it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” hits the state. Also on Friday, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Mexico…

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake occurred near the coast of Jalisco State at around 09:53 Sept. 8. The epicenter was about 9 km (6 miles) northwest of Emiliano Zapata. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 35 km (22 miles), and moderate shaking was probably felt in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter, with lighter shaking likely felt in other parts of Jalisco and Colima states.

Interestingly, this earthquake came just two days after the Mexican Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide…

Reports over the last year suggest some abortion-hoppers are also looking beyond US borders. They’ve been seeking out help in Mexico since as early as July last year. Now, Mexico is set to become an even more attractive destination.

This week, the Mexican supreme court decriminalized decriminalized abortion across the country. The apex court was unequivocal in saying that “the legal system that penalizes abortion in the federal penal code is unconstitutional given it violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.”

Then on Saturday, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit off the coast of Palu, Indonesia, and a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck not too far from New Zealand. Meanwhile, massive storms continue to rage all over the planet.

This year, for the very first time ever recorded, “storms have reached top-tier Category 5 strength in every tropical ocean basin in the same year”.

And now here comes Hurricane Lee.

Lee made headlines all over the globe on Thursday when it suddenly strengthened from a Category 1 storm to a Category 5 storm…

Hurricane Lee is set to send huge rip tides across the East Coast as soon as this weekend, even as meteorologists are still unsure if the eye of the storm will make landfall.

Severe surges could generate waves up to 10 feet tall crashing into the eastern seaboard on Sunday, risking flash flooding and structural damage.

The storm system alarmed forecasters after it escalated from a Category 1 to Category 5 hurricane overnight Thursday, as its wind speeds soared from 80mph to over 160mph in a matter of hours.

Can you imagine what such a storm would do to New York City or Boston if a direct hit happened?

Let us hope that such a scenario can be avoided. But as I have been relentlessly warning, we are entering a period of great instability when our planet will be hit by one major disaster after another.

What we have experienced so far is just the tip of the iceberg, and so I would encourage all of you to brace yourselves for the tumultuous months and years that are ahead.

Michael’s new book entitled “End Times” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here. Article cross-posted from The Economic Collapse Blog.

]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/wake-up-highly-destructive-natural-disasters-are-suddenly-striking-areas-all-over-the-earth/feed/ 1 196565 The Big One Is Coming: New Study Suggests California Could Be Hit by a Major Earthquake Soon https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-big-one-is-coming-new-study-suggests-california-could-be-hit-by-a-major-earthquake-soon/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-big-one-is-coming-new-study-suggests-california-could-be-hit-by-a-major-earthquake-soon/#respond Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:50:00 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=192159 A new study suggests that Los Angeles (LA) and other parts of California could be hit by a major earthquake soon.

Scientists from the California of Institute of Technology have identified more than 1,200 shallow quakes in the previous eight months. These shallow quakes were identified about one mile below the surface, which can develop and produce passageways for more serious ruptures on the surface.

The team examined Long Beach and Seal Beach, two LA suburbs that are situated along the Newport-Inglewood fault.

Earlier studies have suggested that this fault is capable of up to a 7.4-magnitude earthquake, which has an energy equivalent of around 32 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

According to Susan Hough, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) seismologist, shallow quakes can feel like “a bomb directly under a city.” While the name doesn’t sound alarming, shallow quakes can build up to create more pathways for intense earthquakes to rupture on the surface.

The shallow quakes earlier avoided detection of the regional seismic network due to urban noise from ships, exploration devices and other sonar technologies. By investigating during evening hours when noise levels are low, the team was able to identify 1,262 events.

The team detected the shallow earthquakes using three dense nodal seismic arrays placed temporarily in the Long Beach-Seal Beach area. Shallow earthquakes are triggered by stresses on the fault rising slowly in response to the slow movement of tectonic plates, with sliding starting when these stresses surpass static friction.

The scientists also found new faults between the Los Alamitos fault and the Newport-Inglewood fault, and north of the Garden Grove fault. They said other faults in southern California could be examined for these very shallow quakes to better characterize seismic hazards.

Bay Area is overdue for an earthquake of up to 6.7 magnitude

While the research focuses on L.A. area, a report from the USGS released this month said the Bay Area is overdue for an earthquake of up to 6.7 magnitude. It could strike on or before 2030. (Related: Catastrophic earthquake overdue for California, geologists warn: Are you prepared yet?)

The people of Alameda could be in the way of the destructive event. The small city was previously a peninsula linked to Oakland by a small landmass that was dredged out to lengthen a shipping strait more than a century ago.

Christine Goulet, the director of earthquake sciences at USGS, told a Bay Area paper that Alameda is in danger of crumbling in on itself when an earthquake finally strikes.

“With fill, it’s a little like a house of cards,” Goulet said.

According to Goulet, the wet marshland pumped from the bottom of the San Francisco Bay during the early part of the 20th century was possibly not packed down properly. Thus, most of the six-mile-wide landmass is in danger of liquefaction – a phenomenon that happens under severe shaking that makes waterlogged soil lose its strength and behave like a liquid.

Follow Disaster.news for more news about earthquakes happening in America and other parts of the world. Watch this video explaining how a series of California earthquakes can trigger a catastrophic mega earthquake. This video is from the #SeekingTheTruth channel on Brighteon.com.

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