"San Andreas Fault in California is about to explode" Too much Tension ...

"San Andreas Fault in California is about to explode"

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The San Andreas Fault in California has built up so much tension that a massive earthquake now can take place anytime.

That says an American seismologist.
The fracture line marks the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plate. The southern part of the fault is "locked, loaded and ready to burst out," says Thomas Jordan of the California Earthquake Center.

"The pressure on that side of the fault has built up and is no longer vacant more than one hundred years. The feathers on the San Andreas system are tightened very tight," he said at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach, California.

The San Andreas Fault is 1290 kilometers long and runs almost along the entire length of California. It is the part close to Los Angeles which scientists are currently most concerned.

The last major earthquake in the southern region of the fracture took place in 1857 when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9, the area between Monterey County and the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. Since then the quiet. Too quiet, Jordan says. The researchers are convinced that such cleavages should be able to gradually release tension. Otherwise, a massive earthquake almost certain.

A study by the US Geological Survey in 2008 showed that an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 at the height of the southern San Andreas Fault could provide more than 1,800 dead and 50,000 wounded. Such an earthquake would take the full two minutes.

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