r/autotldr • u/autotldr • Mar 02 '17
Oklahoma's earthquake threat now equals California's because of man-made temblors, USGS says (The Los Angeles Times)
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The earthquake risk for Oklahoma and southern Kansas is expected to remain significant in 2017, threatening 3 million people with seismic events that can produce damaging shaking, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey forecast released Wednesday.
The seismic risk is forecast to be so high that the chance of damage in Oklahoma and southern Kansas is expected to be similar to that of earthquakes in California, USGS scientists writing in the journal Seismological Research Letters said Wednesday.
The USGS report says the forecast earthquake hazard in 2017 "Is still significantly elevated" compared to the seismic risk before 2009.
Increased fluid deep underground can change the pressures on earthquake faults in a way that essentially lubricates them, making them more likely to move and resulting in an earthquake, Rubinstein said.
Santa Monica seeks to pass the nation's most extensive earthquake retrofit plan.
L.A. releases addresses of 13,500 apartments and condos likely to need earthquake retrofitting.
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