🚨California: 98 Earthquakes In 24 Hours | Major Fault Zone Southern California’s live USGS map is showing 98 earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the region I am tracking, with many of those tiny tremors lining up along major fault trends. On the surface, 98 sounds extreme, but this is where the deeper story starts. USGS estimates that Southern California averages around 10,000 earthquakes every year. That is roughly 25–30 quakes per day on average, and most of them are so small that nobody feel

🚨 Alert: Megathrust Zone - The Cascadia Fault Is Overdue We worry about the San Andreas, but the fault that can change the map is Cascadia, a 600-mile megathrust off Washington and Oregon. Scientists train for a Magnitude 9.0 event that can shake Seattle and Portland and send a local tsunami racing toward the coast in about 15 minutes after the shaking stops. 🌊 What history tells us: in 1700, Cascadia ruptured at ~M9.0 and launched a Pacific-wide tsunami recorded in Japan. USGS, NOAA, and stat