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If a big San Andreas earthquake occurs drinking water could become a huge issue

Aquaducts in San Andreas could be affect by earthquake

Important Takeaways:

  • Seismologist Lucy Jones told Eyewitness News “Water’s potentially our worst problem and every one of the aqueducts that bring water into the Southern California area across the San Andreas Fault, will be broken when that earthquake happens,” Jones said.
  • Comprehensive solutions to fully strengthen the piping network crossing the San Andreas would help, but for now, she warns we’re looking at a crippling repair timeline that would likely become life-altering for millions of people.
  • “We won’t have any external water for a minimum of six months,” Jones said.
  • Consider that impact – widespread fires after the quake with no water to fight them, businesses unable to operate. Clean water to drink and bathing would also be an issue.
  • If the big quake happened tomorrow, she said FEMA has plans to mitigate the impact. But to what extent?
  • The last major quake on the San Andreas was more than 165 years ago.
  • The questions are: When will it hit? And will we be ready?
  • Jones offers this advice:
  • “Have water,” she said. “However much water you’ve stored, store some more.”

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A new study of Fault running through L.A. and O.C. shows it could have devastating effects similar to San Andreas

Matt 24:7 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.  There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.”

Important Takeaways:

  • Fault along L.A., O.C. coast could unleash earthquake on scale of San Andreas, study shows
  • Known as the Palos Verdes fault zone, the system runs deep beneath the Palos Verdes Peninsula. It previously was thought to be a segmented network of smaller faults, but a closer look by scientists at Harvard University suggests it’s a system of interconnected, closely spaced planar fractures stretching from the Santa Monica Bay to the waters off Dana Point.
  • The fault system, which runs beneath numerous neighborhoods as well as the ports of Long Beach and L.A.
  • Scientists found the fault could produce a quake of a magnitude comparable to one from the San Andreas Fault. Earlier estimates said the fault zone could generate up to a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, but the new study shows it could produce a quake as strong as 7.8.

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