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2023-01-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Quake Prediction Says ‘Signal Just Hit,’ Warns Of Potential Big Earthquake From San Francisco To LA
[ZeroHedge] An earthquake rattled parts of Northern California on Sunday for the second time in two weeks. The 5.4-magnitude quake was centered about 30 miles south of Eureka. On Dec. 20, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake also struck near Eureka.

Now one quake prediction research firm warned that the next big one could be imminent.

On Monday morning, Quake Predictions published a warning that read for the next two days -- there is a "dangerous situation" of the likelihood of a 7.0-magnitude "in the San Francisco Bay to NW of Los Angeles area."

The warning comes after two sizeable quakes hit Northern California in less than two weeks.

Sunday morning's earthquake was described as "more violent this time," Rio Dell Mayor Debra Garnes told CNN in an interview.

"It was shorter but more violent. My refrigerator moved two feet. Things came out of the refrigerator. There's a crack in my wall from the violence of it," Garnes said.

California has an average of five earthquakes per year with magnitudes between 5 and 6, according to LATimes. And the latest shakings might suggest a long overdue big quake could be nearing.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Having lived in Fresno in the mid 70s for 18 months
The ground shakes several times a year.

The Fresno Bee (local paper) must have predicted the big one was coming so much,
it became a Page 2 news .

A lot of researchers say start worrying when there are NOT a bunch of minor stress relieving quakes
Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-03 06:44||   2023-01-03 06:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Jury is still out on prediction. Some experts also say that lots of minor quakes actually increase the probability of a larger event as a "grease the skids" type of mechanism.

About the best anyone can do is have a good plan in mind and resources aimed at the plan knowing that this is a "when" not "if" scenario.

Oh..and move out of CA for a host of reasons...this is but one
Posted by Warthog 2023-01-03 06:56||   2023-01-03 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 

WARTHOG
I am actually encouraging LSD's to move to
KarlMarx-fornia.

Better to have them all in one place.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-03 07:22||   2023-01-03 07:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Millennium Tower in SF (50+ story building in financial district) hasn't been stabilized yet.

Work on stabilizing stopped in summer 2022 because the Tower had continued to sink.
Posted by lord garth 2023-01-03 09:53||   2023-01-03 09:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I’m a little out of date but last I knew ‘gapology’ was the best long-term predictor of major earthquakes. Bay Area is due, LA is past-due.
Posted by Glenmore  2023-01-03 14:14||   2023-01-03 14:14|| Front Page Top

#6 

OK,
and extra $10 to the RB kitty if the SF area has 6.9 or greater in 2023.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-03 15:13||   2023-01-03 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The "Your luck is due to change" argument makes professional g@mbl3rs cringe. Trained statisticians nod in agreement but don't have the emperical experience to wince.
Posted by M. Murcek  2023-01-03 15:25||   2023-01-03 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe that ocean front property I bought in the 1980s will finally pay off.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2023-01-03 15:55||   2023-01-03 15:55|| Front Page Top

#9 I worked in Richmond from 2007 til 2015. It seems like there were a couple of noticeable ones per year. The worst I ever felt was on the 7th floor of a hotel in LA. I was asleep and thought that the magic fingers on my bed had been turned on. I then realized that it wasn’t that type of hotel.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-01-03 20:36||   2023-01-03 20:36|| Front Page Top

#10 San Francisco braces for catastrophic storm that meteorologist says will be 'the most impactful' he's ever seen - with likely loss of life and power outages: 'This is truly a brutal system and needs to be taken seriously'
Posted by Skidmark 2023-01-03 23:43||   2023-01-03 23:43|| Front Page Top

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