The Big One may finally be around the corner. Why scientists say the time is now to pay attention.
I know, I know. We’ve been hearing it for as long as any of us have been living in SoCal. Whether it be your entire life or you just moved here: The Big One is coming. Thirty years out. It’s always in the next thirty years. Funny (or maybe not so) how that timeline never shifts.
This time might be different.
New research published last week in the Journal of Geophysical Research says Southern California’s earthquake faults are under their highest stress level in 1,000 years. Not in recent memory. Not since Northridge. A thousand years and not in the past 30 years…