California earthquake WARNING: ‘Big One is overdue’ and LA is ‘living on borrowed time’

“We now know that by digging into the soil we can go down 1,200 years into the past, looking at soil laid down hundreds of years ago and we find 10 major earthquakes in the last 1,000 years.

“The difference in time is roughly 100 years on average. The last Big One was 160-years-ago, so according to one calculation, we’re 60 years overdue for another Big One.”

The San Andreas Fault is a seismic fault line cutting through the state of California, forming the boundary between the North American and Pacific tectonic plates.

The fault line stretches some 750 miles (1,200km) across and runs under the cities of San Francisco and San Bernardino.

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