Thursday, December 1, 2011

High Winds in Southern California Usually Cause Small Earthquakes!!! New Alert!!!

The wind speeds from Southern California are coming in and they are as high as 100 mph and more with the highest wind reported around 140mph! As a general rule these "Santa Ana Winds" have ALWAYS been responsible for at least some smaller earthquakes happening, mostly in the Southern California area, but these now somewhat higher winds could possibly be responsible for somewhat larger earthquakes. I do not expect that much larger of an earthquake, but I do normally begin tracking earthquake energy at around 100mph winds and so there is most likely now earthquake energy heading for Los Angeles, but lets keep this alert at or below 6 Richters Magnitude with about 6.3 being as high as I would ever expect it to go. I want to take this opportunity to say the exact epicenter of this earthquake, that might be only a few days away, could be Long Beach, Palos Verdes, or Malibu since I do not have the exact wind direction, only having heard they were blowing west, and so those are the Western most points and I am not sure if the earthquake energy will travel up towards Santa Barbara, or Lompoc. Thank-You for reading! EQ Guy

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