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To: Scumbria who wrote (121229)	7/30/2000 7:45:56 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574226

I may be wrong, but I thought California's fault is due to two plates shifting. Japan is very close to three or four plates intersecting and shifting. Much more movement. California is typified by periodic catastrophic earthquakes, followed by a predictable time period of quiesence. Both the Bay Area, and L.A. are approaching the end of the quiesence period. Scumbria, It did not feel like a very quisence period in 1994 when I lived in LA. However I agree that seimic activity has been fairly subdued over the last 50 years in CA. However I once saw a chart comparing seismic activity in Japan and CA for the past 100 yrs and there is no comparion. If I remember correctly, Japan's 4 plates grind out 3 times the number of earthquakes per year that CA's 2 plates do. Re Ca seismic activity, in a million years, CA's two plates will have shifted so much that SF will be a suburb of LA. The good news is that travel costs between the two cities will drop dramatically. The bad news is that SF's favorite hate target will be too close for comfort. ;~)) ted