Active San Andreas Fault Threatens California Infrastructure
DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA - MARCH 31: In an aerial view from a drone, residences with the property edge directly on top off on the San Andreas Fault are seen on March 31, 2021 in Desert Hot Springs, California. Desert Hot Springs is famous for its hot water pressed to the surface from the fault. The San Andreas Fault, long feared for its potential to cause the biggest natural disaster ever in Southern California, is capable of producing and 8.1-magnitude earthquake that could killed thousands of people and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. The southern segment of the fault, extending for hundreds of miles from the Salton Sea in the south, passes as close as 35 miles from Los Angeles, through the Big Bend section in Kern County and on to Parkfield in Monterey County. It is the Big Bend section of the fault that is believed to have become locked, preventing the fault from slipping to release the ever-increasing pressures caused by the grinding of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. The locked fault is rapidly increasing the risk of the long overdue "Big One" quake that scientists say is inevitable. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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