Southern California residents should remain on heightened alert until Tuesday for the increased possibility of a major earthquake, officials said.
The warning by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services follows a series of small temblors deep under the Salton Sea, which is located on the 800-mile-long San Andreas fault, the Orange County Register reported Saturday.
Such warnings are typically issued once or twice a year, said Kelly Huston, the deputy director of crisis communications for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
The latest alert was issued after 142 temblors hit starting Monday near Bombay Beach at the southern end of the fault. Those quakes ranged from a magnitude of 1.4 to 4.3, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Scientists estimate the probability of a quake with a magnitude of 7.0 or higher on the southern San Andreas fault being triggered is as high as 1 in 100 and as low as 1 in 3,000. The average chance for such an earthquake striking on any given week is 1 in 6,000. That heightened probability will last through Tuesday.
Earthquakes along the San Andreas typically occur every 300 years, said Morgan Page, a geophysicist with the USGS. Earthquake Science Center, but the southernmost end of the fault hasn’t ruptured since 1690.
“There is significant stress stored on the southern end,” Page said.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed legislation to develop a statewide warning system to inform Californians of impending earthquakes through their cellphones, radios and other devices.
“California is earthquake country,” said Mark Ghilarducci, the director of the state’s Office of Emergency Services. “We must always be prepared and not let our guard down.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
“Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed legislation to develop a statewide warning system to inform Californians of impending earthquakes through their cellphones, radios and other devices.”
If the ground starts shaking you are having an earthquake. Earthquakes can’t be predicted like a person would predict snow or rain. I’ve seen similar predictions come and go with no earthquake. This one is likely to be another false alarm.
Jerry Brown has been high for forty years. By the time the warning goes out the earthquake will be over.
Wrong, they CAN be predicted today by real science. When the earth shakes on one side of the planet, it shakes in the opposite area on the other side.Same goes for a fault that builds pressure on one end, the other end will soon rumble. Dutchsinse has been predicting them for several years, much to the chagrin of those USGS nay-sayers! Look him up.
Remember Aesop and his story of the boy who cried wolf.
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