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Extreme Pressure Building Along California's San Andreas Fault

Posted by: Chris Steins

30 June 2006 - 1:00pm

New research in Nature indicates that conditions are right for a 100-mile stretch of California's San Andreas Fault to release pressure that has been building.

A new survey of fault movement along the southern stretch of the San Andreas reveals an unprecedented view of its potential to tear open an area populated by such cities as Palm Springs, San Bernardino and Riverside.

"At present time the fault is strained to what it has never experienced before," says Fialko, who reports the result of his research in today's issue of Nature.

Full Story: Study Shows San Andreas Primed for Major Quake
Source: Scientific American, June 28, 2006
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