Is it time to leave California?

It seems its not just fault lines like the San Andreas that you know about <but I must admit if it goes most of the USA would be aware of it . The Christchurch earth quake , no one knew about the fault line , it was right under the central business district area .

 
Thanks in large part to fracking, we now have earthquakes in central Virginia.
 
Some earthquakes on San Andreas fault are triggered by gravitational tug of sun and moon
The gravitational tug between the sun and moon is not just a dance of high and low tides: It can also trigger a special kind of earthquake on the San Andreas fault.
Oklahoma is also a fracking earthquake State - More bad news for frackers
"Oklahoma averaged two magnitude 3.0 and higher earthquakes per year between 1978-2008 according to seismology Austin Holland with the Oklahoma Geological Survey. But Holland tells msnbc that in the first half of 2014 alone, Oklahoma has experienced more than 253 different magnitude 3.0 and higher quakes. "
 
The BBC has a program that is similar to the theme of this thread.

California: Paradise Lost

23 March 2015, 20:00

Historian Adam Smith discovers how the Golden State has long been shaped by conflicting visions of paradise - and what this can tell us about America.

Adam visits the site of a gun battle, where, in 1880, a local farmers' land dispute with a railroad company exploded in bloody violence.

The settlers were trying to defend their hard-won 'little Eden'. Railroad magnate Leland Stanford had a grand vision of an interconnected America.

Each was a version of the American Dream - a vision of a better existence, won through hard work. But in California's golden land, these two dreams clashed.

Adam argues that this is a story that has played out in the state ever since, because ever since its 19th century birth, it has been seen as the ultimate place for Americans to go to make a new, better life. But one person's version of the good life is not always compatible with another's.

And if you can't hold on to paradise in California, what's left?

Adam explores how, through the twentieth century, millions moved to California and created new 'little Edens' in the suburbs - but how these were often based on racial exclusion.

He meets Dorothy Mulkey, an African-American woman whose dream of a new apartment in 1960s Orange County led her to spend years battling against legalised racism in housing - ending in victory in the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, a radically different version of paradise was conceived in the hippie enclaves of San Francisco - and rapidly found itself at war with the suburban version of the good life.
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Is it time to leave Oklahoma? - Record-tying magnitude 5.6 quake in Oklahoma oil country rattles Midwest
Oklahoma regulators ordered more than three dozen oil and gas wastewater disposal wells to shut down after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake — matching the strongest ever to hit Oklahoma — struck Saturday morning and reverberated across the Great Plains, rattling even far-off Iowa.

... the state energy regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, contacted operators of 37 disposal wells in a 725-square-mile area near the epicenter “telling them to shut down” and that the order was “based on emergency authority — this is a mandatory directive.”
Matt Skinner, a spokesman for the commission, said it was an “indefinite shutdown.”

“All the reductions we have done to date have been predicated on the research showing a link between Arbuckle wastewater disposal and earthquakes,” Skinner said.
 
Risk of big earthquake on San Andreas fault rises after quake swarm at Salton Sea
The rumbling started Monday morning deep under the Salton Sea. A rapid succession of small earthquakes — three measuring above magnitude 4.0 — began rupturing near Bombay Beach, continuing for more than 24 hours. Before the swarm started to fade, more than 200 earthquakes had been recorded.
“This is close enough to be in that worry zone,” seismologist Lucy Jones said of the location of the earthquake swarm. “It’s a part of California that the seismologists all watch.”

“When there’s significant seismicity in this area of the fault, we kind of wonder if it is somehow going to go active,” said Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson. “So maybe one of those small earthquakes that’s happening in the neighborhood of the fault is going to trigger it, and set off the big event.”

And that could set the first domino off on the San Andreas fault, unzipping the fault from Imperial County through Los Angeles County, spreading devastating shaking waves throughout the southern half of California in a monster 7.8 earthquake.

(OMG! Run run run! )
 
robert99 said:
Risk of big earthquake on San Andreas fault rises after quake swarm at Salton Sea
The rumbling started Monday morning deep under the Salton Sea. A rapid succession of small earthquakes — three measuring above magnitude 4.0 — began rupturing near Bombay Beach, continuing for more than 24 hours. Before the swarm started to fade, more than 200 earthquakes had been recorded.
“This is close enough to be in that worry zone,” seismologist Lucy Jones said of the location of the earthquake swarm. “It’s a part of California that the seismologists all watch.”

“When there’s significant seismicity in this area of the fault, we kind of wonder if it is somehow going to go active,” said Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson. “So maybe one of those small earthquakes that’s happening in the neighborhood of the fault is going to trigger it, and set off the big event.”

And that could set the first domino off on the San Andreas fault, unzipping the fault from Imperial County through Los Angeles County, spreading devastating shaking waves throughout the southern half of California in a monster 7.8 earthquake.

(OMG! Run run run! )
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Believe me nobody is going to run before it happens.
 
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