No good news: The southern part of the San Andreas fault is moving a lot faster than previously thought

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As if the San Andreas fault wasn’t worrying enough… A new scientific paper reveals that a small stretch of the southern San Andreas Fault is moving much faster than previously thought.

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Part Of The San Andreas Fault Is Moving Way Faster Than We Previously Thought

This anomalous place is called the Mission Creek strand and stretches from around Indio, through Desert Hot Springs and into the mountains of San Bernardino.

While long believed to have a slide rate of around 14 millimeters per year, the new article argues that it is actually around 22 mm.

This particular strand of the San Andreas failure has been interpreted to be not very active. It’s actually very active and is the fastest slipping fault for the San Andreas in Southern California. Therefore it has the highest likelihood of a large magnitude earthquake to occur on it in the future,said the lead author of the study.

A few millimetres may not seem like much, but when we talk about massive tectonic plates pushing against each other, stress builds up.

Higher slip rates on faults mean more risk. It means stress is accumulating faster on that fault and you would need basically either more earthquakes or larger earthquakes over centuries to relieve that stress,” said Morgan Page, one of the developers of the California Earthquake Uniform Forecast.

All of which means that this particular strand on the San Andreas has a greater risk than was previously understood. How much of an additional risk? It needs to be assessed.

Any infrastructure in that area, like water or gas lines which run over the fault itself, will need to be looked at with a critical eye, given that offsets of as much as 30 feet could occur in the event of a major quake. Just look at the Niland Geyser that destroys road in the area!

Their study is in a region where the San Andreas fault is quite complex. This is a substantial step in improving our understanding of how the Southern San Andreas fault works,” said Sally McGill, a geology professor at Cal State San Bernardino.

Regardless of what happens on the Mission Creek strand, we know that sizable earthquakes on the San Andreas are possible.

Like… at any moment.

So now is always a good time to get your earthquake kit ready.

THE BIG ONE IS COMING. GET PREPARED

We don’t want to scare you, but the Big One is coming. We don’t know when, but we know it’ll be at least 44 times stronger than Northridge and 11 times stronger than the Ridgecrest quakes in 2019.

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  1. The dirty little secret about the San Andreas Fault- the thing that nobody wants to discuss publicly, is that there is a plume of molten magma rising directly under Salten Sea; right on the fault line. In all likelihood, Salten Sea will be the epicenter of the “Big One”, and I’ve heard predictions that it will trigger a 9.0 break that runs the entire length of the fault over the course of several days, leveling San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. It will be the greatest loss of human life to a single geological event in history and the greatest loss of property as well.

  2. IF YOU LISTEN TO THE LIEING WHORES IN THE GOVERNMENT,they will cause your death,BUT ,IF YOU LISTEN TO THE LORD,you’ll know when its coming,THE LORD HAS TOLD HIS PEOPLE,When the 9.2 earthquake hits OLYMPIA ,WASHINGTON..24 hours Later,CALIFORNIA will have a 12.5 earthquake,and a large part of the state will go into the pacific ocean..NOW YOU KNOW..

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