It's been a good week for Lucy Jones. On Tuesday, the chief scientist at the US Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, got what she had been waiting for: an earthquake rumbled through Chino Hills, some 40 miles east of Los Angeles.
But this was not the fabled Big One, star of movies, protagonist of novels and mover of mountains. Rather, the Chino Hills quake registered a magnitude of just 5.4, enough to shake some sets in Hollywood, rupture a few water mains and trigger a stampede from an office building causing five injuries in LA's glitzy Wilshire Boulevard.
"It was by all counts a moderate earthquake," said Yuri Fialko, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who published a paper two years ago predicting a rupture in the San Andreas fault within 100 years. "The amount of energy released during the Chino Hills quake was less than 1% of energy from a potential great earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault."
Read the story The Guardian | Posted August 7, 2008
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