Earthquakes-Southern California?

Question

Ok,well my Highschool history teacher says that theres gonna be a huge earthquake thats gonna hit during mid September.I wanted to know if you guys think theres gonna be an earthquake and if so how big do you think its gonna be?

Answer 1

The scientists were expecting the earthquake of magnitude 8 in Richter scale .But it was only 5.4 I thing. Therefore you are safe now. The next earthquakes in near future in south California can not be very big as they have expected. See the energy release chart for each Richter scale. A part of accumulated energy now released and saved them from major disasters.

Approximate TNT (Tri nitro telecom )  Yield for Seismic Energy                    

                       Richter scale

                                   1                     30 lbs  

                                   2. 1 ton

     3. 29 ton

     4. 1000 ton

     5. 32000 ton

     6. 1 million ton

     7. 32 million ton

     8. 1 billion ton

     9. 32 billion ton

    10 1 trillion ton.

Answer 2

Please ask your teacher how a history teacher got to be smarter about earthquakes than thousands of geologists and seismic specialists.  

There is currently no technology that can predict earthquakes that accurately AND that far in the future. The specific warning system can only predict seconds or minutes in advance. The non-specific predictions are generally broad, such as "in the next 10 years".

Answer 3

Like every one tells so, it is not possible to predict well before time when an earth quake may occur But statistical calculations for millinium event century even ..etc may suggest the occourance of an evant. but pin pointing to specific month !

Answer 4

No, I doubt there is going to be one.  They say that all the time.  The truth is it is too difficult to predict earthquakes more then seconds before they happen.  People have been saying the "big one" was going to hit so cal all of my life.  I have lived here for 29 years and I am still waiting.

Answer 5

Like the others said, we can't actually predict quakes yet.  If I were you, I'd just hope to keep having small earthquakes so that there won't be so much energy building up at the fault lines, creating BIG quakes!

Answer 6

At least a local paper that I read had commented on a prediction report from unknown seismic expert/s since last Feb for Sichuan EQ. Since then people said the same source predicted a strong EQ in US this year, but didnt say where or specific date. The rest of this is the rumor or maybe other release. If anything happens, maybe just a mini judgement day from God.