By David E. Hubler
EDM Digest
While climatologists and environmentalists watch for signs of further global warming, volcanologists and other scientists are looking for seismic activity beneath the earth that could indicate the coming of a more immediate danger, a major U.S. earthquake.
Indeed, a new report forecasts that California could experience a 8.0 or greater magnitude earthquake during the next 30 years.
The new warning comes in a report by the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (Version3) known as UCERF3. The study was the joint work of the U.S. Geological Survey, the Southern California Earthquake Center, the California Geological Survey and the California Earthquake Authority.
Forecast: California Likely to see at least 6.7 Magnitude Quake
San Francisco and Los Angeles fall into the areas designated as most likely to experience a magnitude 6.7 or larger within the next three decades. It would likely surpass the 6.7 magnitude quake that struck southern California in January 1994, which resulted in 57 deaths and damages estimated at more than $20 billion.
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