Southern California may at any time flooded by a strong earthquake. Such a warning issued rustic service seismology conference in Los Angeles. Scientists are concerned primarily fragment the so-called San Andreas Fault.
it runs just over southern California and is situated at the junction of two tectonic plates moving relative to each other.
According to the head of the local Seismological Centre Thomas Jordan it seems that the system is ready for the next shock. The last major earthquake was there in the middle of the nineteenth century, and statistically should happen about once every hundred years.
four million Los Angeles is less than fifty kilometers from the fault and certainly would be affected very seriously.
According to an earlier earthquake simulation of the strength of eight degrees would kill many people;
losses would reach billions of dollars. According to seismologists in LA need to significantly strengthen local infrastructure.
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