Thursday, November 6, 2014

8.0 Earthquake: San Andreas Fault To Release All The Energy It Has In One Year

Scientists at the Geophysical Science Lab of San Jose have released a grid model of the Western United States. The model shows a prediction over the next year of the entire San Andreas Fault System. Scientists are now predicting that over four earthquakes will strike at nearly the same time along the fault. “We’re pretty sure that our numbers are correct and that areas along the San Andreas Fault will have multiple earthquakes during the same day as the entire fault gets ripped open,” said Tom Markson, a seismologist at the San Jose Geophysical Lab.



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