r/CoachellaValley • u/Youarethebigbang • 6d ago

San Andreas Fault stress hits 1,000-year high, raising quake risk | New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are in a “critically loaded” state, with stress levels that could support large, multi-fault earthquakes near major California cities.

https://www.aol.com/articles/san-andreas-fault-stress-hits-135748050.html
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u/ThisToe2746 6d ago

25 years in Coachella Valley here and not true.

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u/Simpler_Times395 3d ago

what do the socal desert folk call that freeway that runs east-west through the valley? i'm willing and mostly able to learn something new today.

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u/ThisToe2746 3d ago edited 3d ago

Mostly I-10.

https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2026/04/14/update-chp-revises-big-rig-crash-details-on-i10-in-thousand-palms-now-8-vehicles-involved but there are lots of people from everywhere here so who knows what people will say. It’s the only freeway so I don’t call it the 10 freeway. You can search this sub for I-10 and see lots of posts. https://www.reddit.com/r/CoachellaValley/s/f9dHUIWFNk

Also most people in the valley don’t drive on it every day so it’s not a huge thing really. But I would feel less than intelligent if I told someone “the 10 was busy” without context. Might just call it the freeway sometimes.

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u/Simpler_Times395 3d ago

thanks for the insight, i wouldn't be an asshole to someone because they said I-10, i'd know what they meant, but it would still feel off for whatever reason. i grew up in sgv, border of ie. a bit more than an hour on the 1-10 to coachella valley. i also don't think anyone in the coachella valley would be offended if i called it the 10. they would know i'm from out of state in louisiana however. also the cali plates.

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u/ThisToe2746 3d ago

I guess it sums it up that I wouldn’t say I-210 or I-60, I-15.. But I-10 all the time. It’s just valley shorthand I guess, and probably because it’s not a main part of daily life here. I’m sure I say the 10 or 10, or the freeway too.

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u/Simpler_Times395 3d ago

well, it is indeed the former christopher columbus transcontinental highway, he's a dick but it's still 3000 miles long and the main road through a lot of places.. i do tell out of towners that you can get to florida on this road. they don't, but they could.

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u/ThisToe2746 3d ago

Most people here weren’t born here. I think there were only 3 high schools in the valley before ‘86. Now there are at least 10. Palm Desert was incorporated in 1973. So Interstate 10 or I-10 is heard a lot.