NASA predicts a serious earthquake over next three years in LA

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22. ARMENPRESS. Los Angeles residents should brace themselves for a big earthquake, Nasa warned. The space agency says it is 99.9 per cent sure that LA will be hit by a 5.0 magnitude earthquake in the next three years.

As “Armenpress” reports”, citing Dailymail website,i n Nasa's study, a team led by geophysicist Andrea Donnellan used GPS and airborne radar data to measure surface changes in Earth's crust caused by the March 28, 2014, earthquake. Their study found the quake deformed Earth's crust across the northern Los Angeles Basin and northern Orange County.

The team's results show that even moderate earthquakes near Los Angeles can produce ground deformation and damage to water mains away from their epicenters. Using computer models, scientists found that the best explanation for the observed ground deformation was shallow movement along several active buried fault-like zones.