The next 'Big One' for the Bay Area may be a cluster of major quakes

The next 'Big One' for the Bay Area may be a cluster of major quakes San Francisco CA (SPX) May 21, 2014 - A cluster of closely timed earthquakes over 100 years in the 17th and 18th centuries released as much accumulated stress on San Francisco Bay Area's major faults as the Great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, suggesting two possible scenarios for the next "Big One" for the region, according to new research published by the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA). "The plates a ... morehttp://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_next_Big_One_for_the_Bay_Area_may_be_a_cluster_of_major_quakes_999.html