Earthquake: Prepare for the Big One - Los Angeles

 
This is probably bad news for all of metro California.
In a study published this week in the journal Nature, Caltech researchers argue that previously written-off stable segments of the planet can join in during a fault-slip earthquake in which two plates of earth slide past each other.

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Scientists at the Pasadena school have discovered that such areas can be sleeping giants that can uncoil during super-quakes.
The new theory, presented by CalTech, reflects what can only be translated as “massive shaking”.  Now, the question we all have is that of “when such an event can be expected”. <read more>