temblor

Small temblors are also common around the Geysers geothermal steam field in California.

The temblors have coincided with viral panic stemming from the 2021 reprint of a comic book that many are now interpreting as a clairvoyant prediction of a major earthquake.

And the Santa Barbara temblor revealed just how dangerous brick buildings built in that era could be.

A hypothetical magnitude 9.3 earthquake from Alaska — similar in scale to the monstrous 1964 tsunami-generating temblor — would offer six hours of warning; large temblors from Chile could provide 13 hours of warning.

Monday’s magnitude 5.2 temblor was an uneasy reminder of the fault’s power.