[Skywise]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...ought.html

Quote:Helium is LEAKING from massive earthquake fault in LA raising fears 'big one' could be more devastating than thought

• Indicates Newport-Inglewood fault more important than previously thought
  
• Risk in the next 30 years of 'big one' increased from about 4.7% to 7.0%
  
• However, study says risk of smaller quakes has actually gone down
  

A huge fault in the Earth's crust near Los Angeles is leaking helium, researchers have found.

They say the unexpected find sheds new light on the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin.

It reveals the fault is far deeper than previously thought, and a quake would be far more devastating.

added:

Also at,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...162230.htm
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-geologists-...-zone.html

and the paper:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/...1/abstract

Brian

[Island Chris]

My paper that includes Newport-Inglewood fault was published online June 24. It will be officially published in August issue of Geosphere. The abstract is available at:

http://geosphere.gsapubs.org/content/ear...1.abstract

I think the paper will be freely available from the journal 1 year after publication.

We will see whether it gets any press attention then: my work generally does not get attention. One conclusion of general interest is that the fault systems in the paper, between Newport Beach and San Diego, may be less capable of major thrust earthquakes than suggested by other publications, and the local tsunami hazard from these faults (only) would thus also be less.

I'll send Brian an email.

Chris