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传说大西洲是一个消失在大洋波涛之下的昌盛的文明世界。美国的加利福尼亚州是否会是当今的大西洲,也要遭此厄运呢?加州理工学院的克里·希赫博士断然否定了这一点。这位地质学家花了7年的时间研究了加利福尼亚州的圣安德列斯断裂以后,认为不可能一次强烈的地震就会使加利福尼亚州淹人大海之中。但是希赫博士谈到,圣安德列斯断裂在长达750英里的区域内将不久会重新活动。他预测在近期50年内,一次强地震将袭击加州南部地区。希赫的预测是基于对断裂以往活动规律的分析后作出的。从“圣”断裂最南端的各种迹象来看,发生在那
Legend has it that the Greater Western Island is a prosperous, civilized world that disappears beneath the waves of the oceans. Whether or not California in the United States will be the present-day great West Island will also suffer from this fate? Dr. Kerry Shcher of the California Institute of Technology categorically denied this. After spending seven years investigating the San Andres Fault in California, the geologist thought it impossible to inundate California with a powerful earthquake. But Dr. Sich said the San Andres rupture will soon reactivate within a 750-mile stretch. He predicts a strong earthquake will hit southern California in the next 50 years. Hitch’s prediction is based on an analysis of the law of past activity. From all the signs of the “southernmost” end of the “Holy” fault, that happened