NEW FAULT DISCOVERED IN ROCKIES!!!

Idaho scientists find new seismic fault in Rockies





SALMON, Idaho – Scientists at Idaho State University have mapped a previously unknown and active seismic fault in the northern Rockies capable of unleashing an earthquake with a magnitude as high as 7.5.

The newly discovered fault in central Idaho does not lie in a densely populated area.

But Glenn Thackray, chairman of the university's geosciences department, said the 40-mile-long fracture in the Earth's crust at the base of the Sawtooth Mountains near the tiny mountain town of Stanley is cause for some concern.

"There's a chance in the next few decades there will be an earthquake on this fault, and if it does happen it will be a rather large earthquake," he said.

A 7.5 tremor is considered a major earthquake, capable of widespread heavy damage.


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dam it goes to nebrasky jk... Super volcano 2012 in that one park what's it called

There is a fault here in Corona and Norco, California that these so-called "scientists" are failing to see.

We get poppers from this fault, about 8 miles down every couple of days, most small ... however it shows we have some type of unknown blind thrust fault here.

Jellystone

dam, i am thinkn about moving there

Anyone live near that area?

Also in 10.5 Apocolypse (that B movie for Sy-Fy channel) the fault they showed that cut the country in half!

RUN Yogi RUN!!