No one should be surprised if a magnitude-9 megaquake erupts off America's West Coast — or anywhere else around the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, for that matter. That's the upshot of a study in October's issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America : Researchers say that computer models of future seismic activity, plus a check of past activity going back thousand of years, suggest most of the Pacific's earthquake zones are capable of generating shocks at least as strong as magnitude 9 every 10,000 years on average. http://nbcnews.to/1tZ53Ob http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ
9/15/2014
Brace Yourself For More 9.0 Megaquakes In The Pacific
No one should be surprised if a magnitude-9 megaquake erupts off America's West Coast — or anywhere else around the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, for that matter. That's the upshot of a study in October's issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America : Researchers say that computer models of future seismic activity, plus a check of past activity going back thousand of years, suggest most of the Pacific's earthquake zones are capable of generating shocks at least as strong as magnitude 9 every 10,000 years on average. http://nbcnews.to/1tZ53Ob http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ
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