Hi everyone I'm Mary with Mary Greeley News. Thank you for joining me. At 1:21 am pacific
standard time there was a magnitude 4.6 earthquake about 95 miles west of Shelter Cove California
and USGS sent out an earthquake alert. It was along the a fraction a zone of the San Andrea's
fault and this alert went out as far as fort Bragg and the Sacramento valley. Afterwards there was a
magnitude 4.4 earthquake and a 2.5 earthquake. These are very significant. The Pacific plate
down here as you can see, where the 4.6 earthquake alert went out is slowly moving northwest. Up here
we have the Mendocino Triple Junction which is the wall for the Gorda plate. Up over here
the tip the southern end of the Gorda plate actually extends all the way down
towards Round Valley Bartlett Springs, Lake county, California. The Gorda plate is subducting
underneath the North American plate. It is not subducting under the Pacific Plate. See that
it is suggested by these earthquakes that the southern end of the Gorda plate is yeah
breaking up falling apart. The southern end of the Gorda plate has a clockwise rotation whereas the
northern end of the Gorda plate has no rotation at all. Yeah this 4.6 and the following earthquakes
are very significant showing that the southern end of the Gorda plate is literally falling apart.
That would make the movement of yeah the Pacific Plate much easier. Larger earthquakes could
happen. So with this crumbling if you can call it, the wall of the southern edge of the Gordo Plate
crumbling falling apart it's going to make it easier for the movement of the Pacific Plate
to move northwest and the geologists they know this is happening and that's why they sent out an
earthquake alert for a magnitude 4.6 earthquake. Since 1906 when they had that large earthquake in
San Francisco this area a relatively new and young area of the San Andreas fault has been relatively
quiet. They know too that this faults on the San Andreas fault zone goes into the Macadamia fault
zone, the Bartlett Spring fault zone and the Hayward and Roger Creek fault line all join up
they're just all extensions of the San Andreas fault zone. Here on Google Earth we have the
rogers creek fault zone and the hayward fault yeah they know now that they are both joining together
so this earthquake alert went as far as the Sacramento valley and I'll zoom into that location
And there's the different fault zones yeah
yeah like I said what's going on up over here is very significant let me bring it back up
So where is the next large earthquake gonna happen? Well more than likely there's
going to be some there in Lake County California. Some small ones probably.
I hope they're small. Maybe Fort Bragg.
Time will tell. So what are your thoughts? Put your comments down below. Thank you for watching.
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