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It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
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Researchers can not determine when and where exactly an earthquake will occur. But, a new study that utilizes supercomputer power accounts for the unique characteristics of the faults in the area, allowing seismologists to better understand what threats in Southern California might exist.
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Large earthquakes are infrequent. We simply haven t seen such quakes on most California faults, says Kevin Milner, a computer scientist at the Southern California Earthquake Center and lead author on the new study.
The fact that most faults in California have not hosted a large damaging earthquake since modern records have been kept, says Milner, leaves researchers to infer what types of earthquakes we think are possible on those faults. This uncertainty creates challenges for hazard assessment and planning.
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Massive earthquakes are, fortunately, rare events. But that scarcity of information blinds us in some ways to their risks, especially when it comes to determining the risk for a specific location or structure. We haven t observed most of the possible events that could cause large damage, explained Kevin Milner, a computer scientist and seismology researcher at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) at the University of Southern California. Using Southern California as an example, we haven t had a truly big earthquake since 1857 that was the last time the southern San Andreas broke into a massive magnitude 7.9 earthquake. A San Andreas earthquake could impact a much larger area than the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and other large earthquakes can o