plate tectonic press release
Plate Tectonics Press Release
GLG/101
July-27, 2014
Kathy Howard
Plate Tectonics Press Release
How can the families of Los Angeles be prepared for an earthquake? This is a very important question that haunts us every day, because we don’t always know when they are coming and how bad they will be. I am Donte Lindsey and I am the director of Earth Preparedness of Los Angeles. With any type of danger the first thing you need to be prepared with is knowledge. Today we will discuss the hazards that are associated with earthquakes here in the city of Los Angeles, the causes and the plate tectonics and faults.
For many years people always called southern California Americas Promised Land because of its beautiful weather, beaches and its film industry. Now with 13 million habitants it’s been looked at as hazard city. “Not only does the San Andreas Fault, marking the conservative margin between the Pacific and North American plates, cross Southern California, but LA was built across a myriad of transform faults” ("Case Study For Multiple Hazards; Los Angeles, California, Usa.", 1999). These include the Santa Monica fault, the San Fernando fault, and the Northridge/Santa Barbara fault. Although the most violent earthquakes are predicted to occur along the San Andreas Fault, earth movements frequently occur along most of the lesser known faults. ”The most recent of 11 earthquakes to affect LA since 1970 occurred in January 1994, focusing in the Northridge area It registered 6.7 on the Richter scale, lasted for 30 seconds, and was followed by aftershocks lasting several days, The quake killed 60 people, injured several thousand, caused buildings and sections of freeway to collapse, ignited fires following a gas leak and explosion in the Granada Hills area, and left 500,000 homes without power and 200,000 homes without water supplies” ("Case Study For Multiple Hazards; Los Angeles, California, Usa.", 1999).
There’re many reasons as too what causes the
GLG/101
July-27, 2014
Kathy Howard
Plate Tectonics Press Release
How can the families of Los Angeles be prepared for an earthquake? This is a very important question that haunts us every day, because we don’t always know when they are coming and how bad they will be. I am Donte Lindsey and I am the director of Earth Preparedness of Los Angeles. With any type of danger the first thing you need to be prepared with is knowledge. Today we will discuss the hazards that are associated with earthquakes here in the city of Los Angeles, the causes and the plate tectonics and faults.
For many years people always called southern California Americas Promised Land because of its beautiful weather, beaches and its film industry. Now with 13 million habitants it’s been looked at as hazard city. “Not only does the San Andreas Fault, marking the conservative margin between the Pacific and North American plates, cross Southern California, but LA was built across a myriad of transform faults” ("Case Study For Multiple Hazards; Los Angeles, California, Usa.", 1999). These include the Santa Monica fault, the San Fernando fault, and the Northridge/Santa Barbara fault. Although the most violent earthquakes are predicted to occur along the San Andreas Fault, earth movements frequently occur along most of the lesser known faults. ”The most recent of 11 earthquakes to affect LA since 1970 occurred in January 1994, focusing in the Northridge area It registered 6.7 on the Richter scale, lasted for 30 seconds, and was followed by aftershocks lasting several days, The quake killed 60 people, injured several thousand, caused buildings and sections of freeway to collapse, ignited fires following a gas leak and explosion in the Granada Hills area, and left 500,000 homes without power and 200,000 homes without water supplies” ("Case Study For Multiple Hazards; Los Angeles, California, Usa.", 1999).
There’re many reasons as too what causes the