“This is a significant advancement in terms of representing a broader range of earthquakes throughout California’s complex fault system.”Ĭompared to the 2008 assessment, earthquakes around magnitude 6.7, the size of the destructive 1994 Northridge quake, has gone down by 30 percent with a frequency from an average of one per 4.8 years to about one per 6.3 years. “The new likelihoods are due to the inclusion of possible multi-fault ruptures, where earthquakes are no longer confined to separate, individual faults, but can occasionally rupture multiple faults simultaneously,” said lead author and USGS scientist Ned Field. READ MORE: UPDATE: Wind-Whipped Wildfire Near Big Sur Grows To 1,500 Acres Residents Forced To Evacuate Highway 1 Shut Down Geological Survey.Ī study by the Third Uniform California Rupture Forecast, or UCERF3, sheds new light on where earthquakes will likely hit in California over the next couple of decades and how big they’re expected to be. (CBS SF) - The probability California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next couple of decades has increased, according to the U.S.
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