Published on March 14, 2017
A magnitude 8 or larger earthquake—a “big one”—could wreak havoc in California’s Los Angeles Basin and reduce cities to rubble.
Now, the results of new studies of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone suggest the likelihood of such a disaster occurring in the next 30 years has increased, The Daily Mail reported.
One study, conducted by UC Santa Barbara geologist Jim Boles and published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, found that the Newport-Inglewood fault is much deeper than previously thought, is leaking helium, and that a quake would be far more devastating than previously expected.
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