Small Earthquakes Happen every 3 minutes in Southern California

https://www.livescience.com/65267-quakes-shake-southern-california-every-three-minutes.html


Every three minutes, Southern California gets a small earthquake, barely strong enough for seismic instruments to notice. Once every so often the instrument can detect these earthquakes and this allows scientists to experiment how larger earthquakes form one another.  These earthquakes are so small that the seismic instruments can not pick out the noise from the earthquakes from the environmental noises.  Many scientists use the data of these earthquakes to explore the aftermath of the biggest ones in the world.

This article made me think, there are probably small earthquakes happening all around the world without any one realizing it, this is honestly scary.

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 23, 2019 at 5:00 AM

    This is terrifying because one of these times, the San Andreas fault could rupture and destroy a lot of land and homes. Since California has earthquakes so often, it basically has been normalized to many people and they might not think too much of it, until one day... BOOM!

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  2. AnonymousApril 24, 2019 at 9:08 AM

    This is interesting, I was unaware that this occurs as often as every three minutes.

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  3. AnonymousApril 30, 2019 at 4:49 PM

    I also think this is pretty scary but also interesting. I was not aware that this was happening and I'm glad I know now.

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