NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The Earth is vibrating south of California every 174 seconds, an earthquake every three minutes, researchers in the United States have concluded.
According to the researchers, this area of the US state is shaking 495 times a day, but most of these tremors are so simple that traditional monitoring devices are unable to detect them, let alone feel them.
The researchers, under the supervision of Zakhiri Ross of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, published their findings in the current issue of the journal Science.
A team of researchers developed a computer program based on known earthquake signals as a prototype, and found in the data monitored by seismic stations large amounts of earthquakes ranging between 3.0 and 7.1 degrees.
Overall, the researchers found evidence that the southern California region suffered 1.8 million small tremors between 2008 and 2017, and said the tremors had not been recorded before, according to the German news agency.
Through their extensive catalog, researchers hope to obtain new information on the origins and consequences of earthquakes. The researchers cited as an example of these tremors the series of successive tremors that struck the summer of 2012 the area around the city of Broly, not far from the US border with Mexico over three days, which reached 3.5 degrees.
In their new scientific way, researchers have identified 36 earthquakes in the past 10 hours of the major quake.
The researchers also received new information on the effects of earthquakes. For example, it was known that the earthquake that hit the town of Caucaaba in the Baya California Peninsula in 2010, which was 2.7 magnitude, caused other earthquakes. 175 km, where Ross and his colleagues discovered that the tremor caused other tremors 275 kilometers away.