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Friday, August 19, 2016

NASA says MASSIVE earthquake is '99.9 per cent' 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.”

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can't happen soon enough!!!

Anonymous said...

I'll be watching from the Arizona coastline.

Anonymous said...


Meanwhile seismologists are planning trip to Mars!

Anonymous said...

Hope it takes Hollywood with it
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