Earthquakes today in California could mean there are earthquake storms at hand.
The Pacific Ocean off the California coast has recently been hit by a surprising 6.9 magnitude earthquake. This happened Sunday night according to a report from the United States Geological Survey.
The west of Eureka and was one of the earthquakes today in California and it hit at about 50 miles. According to the USGS, the quake hit 4.3 miles beneath the seabed and occurred at 10:18 p.m. PT. A half dozen aftershocks soon followed and included one of the magnitude-4.6.
Earthquakes today in California are common mainly because due to California's location, sitting atop where two of the Earth's tectonic plates meet.
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, there is no threat of a tsunami from this one big earthquake, which means we could all breathe a little more freely. However, there could be multiple, large earthquakes that earthquakes today in California may possibly wipe out the entirety of the state, and this is what we should be preparing for.
These "earthquake storms" is a terrifying reality notified in the book Earthquake Storms: An Unauthorized Biography of the San Andreas Fault by John Dvorak.
According to the book, a quake on the San Andreas Fault could trigger a domino-like effect that could unleash numerous earthquakes on a few different faults resulted by multiple paths of destruction rippling their way toward dozens of densely populated metropolitan areas.
It was half a century ago when Stanford professor Amos Nur who first noticed what he termed "stress transfer" phenomenon during his stud of ancient earthquakes.
Nur offers a visualization by explaining:
"Take a wide rubber band and cut a few short slits in it. As the band is stretched, each slit in turn opens up and the ends of the slits lengthen. The sequence that the slits open and by how much depends on how the stress pattern gets transferred and concentrated at new locations across the rubber band."
Earthquakes today in California pose a much bigger issue than just possible tsunami. Theories like this could and should change the way we think about safety. Earthquakes are a force of nature and cannot be prevented, but like any other natural disaster, the best way to combat them is to prepare and arm ourselves with knowledge.
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