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S. Geological Survey (both studies appeared in the American Geophysical Union’s “Journal of Geophysical Research”). Adding to the vulnerability of all of North San Diego County was another disturbing discovery: fault lines that were once thought to be inactive have proven otherwise in recent years. For example, San Diego State University researchers discovered that San Diego’s Rose Canyon fault line is actually more active than initially thought – a most unexpected surprise! The 40-mile-long Rose Canyon Fault line extends from the Mission Valley area and heads past Mt. Soledad and offshore La Jolla where it travels in the Pacific Ocean and joins other faults, such as the Oceanside Fault (previously mentioned at the top of this article). In addition to all these unexpected findings, two previously hidden earthquake fault lines were recently discovered, both of which are just off the coast of San Diego’s North County, and which travel north to Los Angeles and Orange counties!
LOS ANGELES SITS ON A POWDER KEG WHICH INTERCONNECTS WITH NORTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY! According to the world’s foremost seismologists today: “The city of Los Angeles sits directly on top of a least 100 active earthquake faults, all of which are directly underneath some of the most expensive real estate in the country, as well as being directly underneath densely-populated metropolitan areas, freeways, bridges, buildings, hospitals, schools, power grids and countless critical lifelines.” These newly-discovered fault systems, crisscrossing San Diego and Los Angeles regions, have: “The deadly potential of unleashing a powerful earthquake that would affect the lives of as many as 20-million people,” according to geoscientists. (Journal of Geophysical Research, ibid)
ESCONDIDO NARROWINGLY MISSED REGIONAL DAMAGE BY LESS THAN 45 MILES! The Northridge event released deep underground energy so unreal that it even shocked the world’s leading scientists who had studied other worldwide earth-movers, as famed geologist James Dolan was quoted: “From the San Fernando Valley the earth shook and the shockwaves actually travelled underneath . . . (Dolan pauses here in disbelief, and then continues) . . .the shockwaves actually travelled underneath an entire mountain range, devastating buildings in Santa Monica, 18 miles to the south!” Instead of San Fernando Valley, the epicenter was actually in Reseda, California and the devastation spread out in a radius of over 85 miles (137 km), devastating areas in San Fernando Valley, and as far away as Santa Monica, Hollywood,
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Simi Valley, and Santa Clarita.
Escondido, sitting less than 130 miles southward, narrowly missed the physical destruction perimeter by a scant 45 miles!
In reality, and in geophysical retrospect, the potential danger to all of North County back then was much higher!
The interconnecting network of fault lines, the discovery of new, unknown fault systems, as well as the unexpected level of power causing the earth’s crust to shift 12 miles deep, and the (physical alterations in the elevation of mountain ranges) between North County and Northridge was -- in hindsight -- a very “close encounter” which could have set off a chain-reaction of the most horrifying sort. Few people outside of the scientific community ever knew and comprehended how close and terrifying and horrific this scenario could have played out!
One geologist said in stunned amazement: “It took only 6 seconds to release its deadly energy. In only 6 seconds, it derailed trains, 9 freeway bridges were left in shambles, and 4 freeway overpasses were sliced completely in half. And it still wasn’t done!” The earth continued shaking for a full 20 seconds!
If the quake had not been so deep underground (almost 12 miles), the destruction would have been unimaginable!
HOW CLOSE WAS THE “POWER LEVEL” TO NORTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGIONS? It was too close, by earthquake standards. The 12-mile underground power and energy moved foremost geologist, Lucy Jones, of the U.S. Geological Survey to state: “The underground quake movement was so powerful that it overwhelmed all ground sensors. The earth’s underground -over 10 miles deep, was moving in so many places at once that we actually thought -- ‘this cannot be real – this must be a glitch in our measurement computer systems!’” Scientist, James Dolan, weighed in: “The amount of energy involved in moving a part of the earth’s crust – a crust 10 miles thick – moving that much earth 20-feet in a couple seconds . . . is mind-boggling!” For San Diego’s North County region, with its interconnected network of faults – it was a far, far closer call than anyone thought!
THE QUAKE MOVED MOUNTAINS BETWEEN NORTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY & LOS ANGELES! The world’s leading experts say it is virtually impossible – even for trained theoretical scientists – to fully comprehend the following truth: “The Northridge quake, in
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