A fault system that runs from San Diego to Los Angeles is capable of producing up to magnitude 7.3 earthquakes if the offshore segments rupture and a 7.4 if the southern onshore segment also ruptures, according to an analysis led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. The Newport-Inglewood and Rose Canyon faults had been considered separate systems but the study shows that they are actually one continuous fault system running from San Diego Bay to Seal Beach in Orange County, then on land through the Los Angeles basin. The researchers processed data from previous seismic surveys and supplemented it with high-resolution bathymetric data gathered offshore by Scripps researchers between 2006 and 2009 and seismic surveys conducted aboard former Scripps research vessels New Horizon and Melville in 2013.
They identified four segments of the strike-slip fault that are broken up by what geoscientists call stepovers, points where the fault is horizontally offset.
Earthquakes can not be predicted exactly because they come from the earth. There are machines that can predict id they might be coming but its not like the weather were you can predict it exactly. When there are earthquakes we need to take precautions, so we can stay alive. If we don't take precautions during the earthquake we can possibly die. It is always to safe to be under metal or something you cant be crushed by or in a open landscape.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170307130842.htm
They identified four segments of the strike-slip fault that are broken up by what geoscientists call stepovers, points where the fault is horizontally offset.
Earthquakes can not be predicted exactly because they come from the earth. There are machines that can predict id they might be coming but its not like the weather were you can predict it exactly. When there are earthquakes we need to take precautions, so we can stay alive. If we don't take precautions during the earthquake we can possibly die. It is always to safe to be under metal or something you cant be crushed by or in a open landscape.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170307130842.htm