As stated in the article “When Will the Big One Strike California?,” by Francis Weaver of The Week, California contains 300 fault lines and has 37,000 tremors a year making it one of the most seismically active parts of the world. However, these little known facts make it at risk of having a possible catastrophe if say, the San Andreas fault were to shift and produce a major earthquake. Seismologists have warned with urgency and confidence that “The Big One” is near and that is should not be overlooked. Knowing how unusual it is for fault lines to remain inactive for such long periods of time gives me the notion to take what the seismologist say as truth. The Big One is more than a concern, it is an anticipated event.
In following, although California doesn’t have the creative earthquake technology of Japan, consisting of hundreds of earthquake pulse sensors, other preparations have been set forth such as replacing concrete buildings with steel ones, and so forth. It is said that “there is a 99.7% chance of a Big One of at least magnitude 6.7 striking California within the next three decades,” thus this probability is a raging earthquake-prevention-catalysis for the residents of California. Just like meteorologist are able to successfully predict the weather, seismologist are able to successfully
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These two large faults haven’t made a shift in record time and seismologist say that could mean ever-building tension. The damage done would be noticed for a long time; “los Angeles Basin would turn into a violently trembling Jell-O, causing major highways and airport runways to buckle, water and sewer pipes to crack, electrical and gas lines to sever, and thousands of fires to break out across the region,” as the article depicts, devastating destruction would take