Hurricane season is here, bringing with it an outbreak of troublesome storms that have become the norm. Insurers along the East and Gulf Coast have been wringing their hands in anticipation of a major hurricane that could cost millions in damages. Californians, however, are not troubled by such happenings. Instead, the worry that occupies their minds is the threat of major earthquakes. Their worry seems to be justified, according to a report from the Field Research Corp., a full-service consumer marketing research firm that works with insurance companies, as relatively…
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California fault line research reveals how far away earthquakes effect us
A United States Geological Survey (USGS) team has been working with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) to study what effect a large quake has in triggering smaller, slow moving tremors, deep along the San Andreas Fault line. It is possible that a sizeable quake far away could trigger episodes deep in the San Andreas Fault line. An earthquake is a vibration that travels through the earth’s crust. This is usually the result of movement in pieces of the earth’s surface, called tectonic plates. Other things can…
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