Film company Warner Bros Pictures may want to continue shooting and make San Andreas II - the sequel to the 2015 blockbuster about the massive earthquake that struck San Francisco. Why?
Because if the worst fears of the US Geological Survey are confirmed, the seismic destruction shown in the film will happen in reality. According to the Daily Mail, 134 earthquakes in the past week attack the three-mile zone around Monterey due to the fault of San Andreas - a pace that has made seismologists very nervous.
The San Andreas Fault extends 750 miles north-south along coastal California, forming the boundaries of the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
Of those earthquakes, 17 were stronger than 2.5 and 6 of them were stronger than 3.0. And experts from the US Geological Survey warn that more tremors are expected in the coming weeks.
The shaking heightens fears raised last week that Big One - the mythical earthquake depicted in San Andreas - is about to strike. Another sign of an impending disaster are the ten such "mini-earthquakes" that hit last week. This swarm included one 4.6 magnitude earthquake that was felt in San Francisco, more than 90 miles away.
“It was a pretty intense sequence of aftershocks,” said Ole Kaven, a seismologist at the US Geological Survey.
“We suspect there will be aftershocks for at least a few weeks,” he added.
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Fortunately, no one was hurt during this swarm of earthquakes.
Roy hit California's Monterey at 11:31 am ET last week, about 13 miles northeast of Gonzales, near Salinas.
This dramatically increases the likelihood of a major earthquake in California, experts said.
The initial magnitude 4.6 earthquake was accompanied by nine smaller aftershocks.
The quake struck at a depth of about 4 miles right above the fault.
Experts have previously warned that any activity on the fault line is cause for great concern.
“When there is significant seismic activity around the San Andreas Fault, we seismologists get very nervous,” said Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.
