The Sky Ain't Fallin', Honey, But the Ground is Shakin'!

Earthquakes have always been really super interesting to me. Probably because they have the ability and power to take thousands of lives at one snap. Because there was ANOTHER earthquake that happened today in Northern California, I don't think I'll sleep until I talk about this.

This has been the 4th earthquake in the last 72 hours to hit countries bordering the Pacific Plate. That plate is a movin', suga, and it ain't pretty. The earthquake that hit Nor Cal today? A magnitude 7...that's not small, my friends.

What a lot of my friends have probably heard me talk about before is the Rose Canyon Fault, right here in San Diego. I think a lot of people write it off as nothing, but this fault shouldn't be ignored. The magnitude of it could literally be earth-shattering. Here is an excerpt from a report that explains this phenomenon futher:

Historic documents record that a very strong earthquake struck San Diego on 27 May 1862, damaging buildings in Old Town and opening up cracks in the earth near the San Diego River mouth. This destructive temblor was centered on either the Rose Canyon or Coronado Bank faults and descriptions of damage suggest that it had a magnitude of about 6.0.

Ongoing field and laboratory studies suggest the following maximum likely magnitudes for local faults: San Jacinto (M6.4 to 7.3), Elsinore (M6.5 to 7.3), Rose Canyon (M6.2 to 7.0), La Nacion (M6.2 to 6.6), Coronado Bank (M6.0 to 7.7), San Diego Trough (M6.1 to 7.7), San Clemente (M6.6 to 7.7).

That mother is gonna shake San Diego senseless. It's supposed to naturally move an inch per year, but hasn't moved in 350 years. So, when it does, it will be a huge quake and will hit our unsuspecting city hard. Here's a map of the fault line, and the precious places it runs through. Say goodbye to those pretty little houses in La Jolla, the Coronado Bridge and Lindbergh Field. The fault runs through all of them.

San Diego better open it's pretty little eyes. For even though the fault has a pretty little name, it's gonna cause a pretty lot of destruction.