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Are California's Nuclear Power Plants Built to Withstand Earthquakes? It's been a long time since an
earthquake has occurred on that fault—over 150 years," said Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern
California Earthquake Center. We are being reassured that quakes of around magnitude 8 are the most we could expect in
... read moreTsunami's effects in California offer clues about future, more powerful ... But experts say Southern
California could see significant tsunamis caused by a far-away
earthquake off Alaska or by undersea landslides spurred by
earthquakes off
California's shore. The northern portion of the state faces a greater threat from the
... read moreOp-Ed: Earthquake-prone California doesn't need any more nuclear plants Neither San Onofre nor Diablo Canyon could be affected in the same way by an offshore
earthquake and tsunami because Southern
California doesn't have the same kind of underwater faults nearby. That's comforting, in its way.
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