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Portion of California’s San Andreas Fault primed for imminent earthquake, study shows
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0:50Now PlayingRemote sections along California’s massive San Andreas Fault, where large earthquakes regularly occur, may be primed to shake again any day now, according to a new study.
The area around Parkfield in Monterey County typically experiences an earthquake with a magnitude of 6 or greater every 22 years on average. Its last tremor was in 2004 — but that one came 14 years late.
Scientists studying the fault for signs of when the next quake will be have believed they’ve detected unique seismic activity that points to a strong earthquake possibly as soon as this year, according to a study published March 22 in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science.
“We are waiting,” study lead author Luca Malagnini, the director of research at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy, told Live Science.
The San Andreas Fault line, which stretches some 800 miles across California, marks the boundary between the Pacific and North tectonic plates, according to the outlet.
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