“So this is probably too far away,” she said, for Monday’s quakes to trigger a large one on the San Andreas.
Scientists have not seen a foreshock that has triggered a larger earthquake more than 6.2 miles away, and Monday’s quake sequence so far is about 7.5 miles from the San Andreas fault, Jones said. The San Andreas is one of the state’s most dangerous faults and, in the worst-case scenario, is capable of unleashing a magnitude 8.2 earthquake along a stretch from close to the Mexican border through Palm Springs, San Bernardino and into the mountains of Los Angeles County, all the way up to Monterey County.
The San Andreas fault’s southernmost stretch has not ruptured since 1680 to 1690. And Large quakes can easily happen with no detectable foreshocks beforehand. It was among a series that began at 6:33 a.m. with a magnitude 3.2 earthquake. In recent years, Los Angeles and other cities have passed But there remain vulnerabilities. Magnitude 4 quakes struck at 9:03 a.m. and 12:29 p.m.It’s only the fourth time in the 88 years of modern records that such a swarm has occurred in this part of California — a region that raises concern among seismologists for the chance that it can trigger a significant earthquake on the San Andreas fault. A swarm of small earthquakes in California, close to the Mexican border, is being closely monitored as to whether it might raise the chance of a much larger event on the San Andreas fault.
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On June 28, an earthquake 63 times stronger ruptured — the magnitude 7.3 Landers quake, with an epicenter more than 25 miles northeast of Palm Springs. “While small, this probability is 3.5-5.0 times higher than the annual chance of a large San Andreas earthquake in the ‘UCERF3’ benchmark model for California,” they added.Given the small likelihood of a large San Andreas earthquake in the next year, the scientists say no one should panic.“But, as we have seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, low probability chain-reaction events do occur in nature, and when they do, their consequences can be great,” they explained. Monday’s swarm is farther from the San Andreas fault than the 2016 swarm was, said seismologist Lucy Jones. Earthquakes up to magnitude 4.6 under the Salton Sea are raising concern that a larger quake could be unleashed on the San Andreas fault, shown as the red line. Would you like to receive desktop browser notifications about breaking news and other major stories?