California fault lines our risk
Two Washington University in St. Louis geologists comment on the Japanese earthquake
The ground beneath our feet
But just when his listeners are feeling reassured, he says, "There are a lot of faults around the world, and there are a lot of faults we don’t know about. If you look at a place like Southern California where the San Andreas fault run right along and takes a bend, that areas has had some very large earthquakes over the years: the Landers earthquake, the Big Bear, the Joshua Tree, the Northridge earthquake. Not one of them was on the San Andreas fault. Most of them in fact were on faults we didn’t know existed until they ruptured."
The two plants in CA should
The two plants in CA should really be closed. Are right by the ocean and miles from huge population centers (Santa Barbara/LA/San Diego). Unfortunately nobody is doing anything about it. If one of them blows up we won't get away like the Japanese since the wind is blowing inland. CA will be inhabitable for thousands of years...