The Big One Is Coming: 1,000 Years of Pressure Building Beneath California
The Big One Is Coming: 1,000 Years of Pressure Building Beneath California
The Big One isn’t a movie. It’s a certainty.
Beneath California’s Cajon Pass, where millions of drivers travel every year without a second thought, sits one of the most dangerous geological locations in North America: the meeting point of major sections of the San Andreas Fault.
Scientists say enormous pressure has been building there for centuries—possibly over 1,000 years. That doesn’t mean a devastating earthquake will strike today. But it does mean the energy is there, waiting to be released.
And California isn’t…
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