Los Angeles residents better start making their earthquake-preparedness kits — scientists say there’s a 99 percent chance that a quake will rock the city sometime before 2018.
Using radar and GPS to measure the likelihood of an earthquake, experts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena predict a 5.0-magnitude shaker — or bigger — for the L.A. area. After the La Habra quake in spring 2014, there’s apparently enough strain on the L.A. basin to produce an even larger earthquake with the same epicenter just 20 miles southeast of downtown, JPL geophysicist Dr. Andrea Donnellan told CBS Los Angeles.
Although the earth isn’t expected to literally crack open, “there’s enough energy stored to produce about a magnitude 6.1 to 6.3 earthquake,” Donnellan says.
REMARKS: People need to heed the call, and while they may not be able to just up and leave and relocate their life, they need to think about planning on what they will need to do WHEN it happens. What will it do to the area where they live? Maybe it will not be mass devastation, but it is a sign of what is to come, which can be worse later on.
After seeing what Hurricane Sandy did here, I KNOW if there is a Cat 2 storm coming, I am getting the hell outta dodge before it comes. Ultimately, I don't want to be a sitting duck, waiting for my luck to run out when we get the Big one. I've seen enough to know what comes next.
[Edited on 10/21/2015 by gina]
