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- From: nomdenet@isi.edu (A. R. White)
- Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes
- Subject: Three Studies on Lander's Effects on San Andreas
- Message-ID: <22924@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:42:20 GMT
- Reply-To: nomdenet@venera.isi.edu (A. R. White)
- Distribution: ca
- Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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- Summary: Most likely The Big One will be sooner rather than later
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- This morning NPR's science reporter Richard Harris did a story prompted
- by the release of three studies about the effects of this year's Landers
- quake on the San Andreas fault. Appearing in the current issues of Science
- and Nature, the reports, from three independent groups of researchers,
- conclude that Landers increased stress on the San Andreas fault [system],
- and most likely hastened The Big One. This one event added something like
- 10-20 years of the stress which would normally accumulated from the 5cm/year
- creep along the San Andreas. Stress seems to have increased particularly
- near Indio and San Bernardino in Southern California, and decreased between
- these two places as well as north of Los Angeles.
- Harris interviewed Ross Stein of USGS Menlo Park.
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- Like most news, this 4-minute story represents the reporter's probably
- hasty reading of three papers, his sifting for the sexiest elements,
- and his simplification for a lay audience -- though Harris tries hard
- and mostly succeeds. Living in Los Angeles (it sometimes seeming like life
- without possibility of parole) I'm highly interested.
- Though I'll drop by my friendly local news stand this evening and buy
- Nature & Science this evening, does anybody know anything more about this
- research?
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- Thanks,
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- A. R. White
- Internet: nomdenet @ ISI.edu
-