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Thursday, August 18, 2016
NASA says MASSIVE earthquake is '99.9 percent' likely to rock LA
NASA says MASSIVE earthquake is '99.9 percent' likely to rock LA
A HUGE earthquake is 99.9 per cent likely to hit Los Angeles within the next two years, scientists from NASA have said.
The group’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena have warned a series of mini-tremors
beneath the surface of the City of Angels have caused pressure to
build-up.
In 2014, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit the town of La
Habra in southern California and the experts from NASA say that there is
still some left over strain from that, which will almost definitely hit
before April 2018.JPL geophysicist Dr Andrea Donnellan said:
“When the La Habra earthquake happened, it was relieving some of that
stress, and it actually shook some of the upper sediments in the LA
basin and moved those a little bit more.
“There’s enough energy stored to produce about a magnitude 6.1 to 6.3 earthquake.”
A huge earthquake could hit LADr
Donnellan and her colleagues reached the conclusion that an LA quake is
almost inevitable after using radar and GPS to track all tremors in LA.
They
then measured the probability of an earthquake striking within the 60
mile radius of LA and reached the conclusion than an Earthquake of 5.0
or higher will strike the southern Californian city.
California has been devastated by earthquakes before
However, Robert Graves, a US Geological Survey (USGL) seismologist and
Southern California coordinator for earthquake hazards, has cast his
doubts about the study from JPL.
Mr Graves said: “The 99.9 per cent
number – I don’t know the method that was used to derive that. But
basically, that's saying that’s going to happen.
“And that level of certainty, to my knowledge, is just not attainable. We can never be that certain.”
