Study says Salton Sea is preventing large earthquakes
| Published on July 2, 2011 12:45 pm PT – By Dave Tole – Writer – Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller |
(TheWeatherSpace.com) — A new scientific study, examining the fault structure of the southern San Andreas fault zone, has found that recent human regulation of the Colorado River may have delayed a major earthquake along the zone.
There hasn’t been a large earthquake under the Salton Sea for the past 300 years.
The study concludes that in the past, regular flooding of the Salton Sea area induced large earthquakes, occurring roughly every 180 years.
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