Researchers: ���Considerable��� Movement Along San Andreas Fault

According to researchers, new evidence has come to light showing ���considerable��� movement along the San Andreas Fault.

The findings, published in the Nature Geoscience journal, show a ������considerable��� mall-amplitude, but spatially considerable, coherent pattern of uplift and subsidence straddling the fault system in southern California.���

Although the GPS readings have been available before, they had been obscured by other collateral ���noises��� in the data, including those from rain and water pumping. A team from the University of Hawaii was able, through statistical analysis, to remove these noises, and what was left was definitive evidence of movement on both sides of the fault.

Just last month, Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, said in an address at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach, California that the part of the fault that runs through Southern California is ���locked, loaded and ready to roll.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large