Powerful, Centuries Old Earthquakes Could Still Be Responsible for Much of North America’s Seismic Activity Today

2023-11-17 4,831

Earthquakes can happen suddenly and without warning, but what if the tremors we feel today didn’t actually start today, but possible decades if not a hundred years ago. That might seem wild, but that’s exactly what researchers say they've begun to believe might be the case, after making some statistical inferences from historical seismic data.