Scientists issue chilling warning about ‘The Big One’: Impending mega-earthquake on California’s notorious San Andreas fault could be even BIGGER than we thought

It is estimated that it will be one of the most destructive earthquakes in history.

And now scientists have issued a creepy warning about California’s ‘Big One’ – a Mega Earth – which was set to rock California’s famrious San Andreas error.

Caltech experts in Pasadena examined a 7.7 -magnitude earthquake that shook Myanmar during the Sagaing error in March – a known mistake to San Andreas.

This earthquake exploded a much longer part of the mistake than scientists expected, killed thousands of people and caused widespread damage.

According to the researchers, it shows that this big one can be greater than we think.

Jean – Philippe Avouac, the author of the study, said, “Future earthquakes may not only repeat known earthquakes in the past,” he said.

‘Sequential ruptures of a particular error can be very different as simple as Sagaing or San Andreas errors, and since the last event, it can release more than the sliding deficit.

‘In addition, historical records are often very short for statistical models to represent possible earthquakes and ultimate patterns in earthquake reconstruction.’

Experts from Caltech in Pasadena examined a 7.7 -magnitude earthquake that waved Myanmar in March during the Sagaing error – a known error similar to San Andreas

The destructive earthquake hit Myanmar on March 28, 2025, killed more than 2,000 people and injured 3,900.

The earthquake occurred when a part of the Sagaing error was torn and caused widespread damage along a region oil in the middle of the country, including Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway and Bago regions and Shan Province.

In his new work, the Caltech team used the satellite images of Sagaing Fay’s movement to see exactly what happened and whether there would be a similar incident in California.

Solène Antoine, the first author of the research, “ This earthquake, the research group developed by the image correlation methods turned out to be an ideal situation, ” he said.

“ “ `Radar interferometry, such as decorative, such as phenomenon, they allow us to measure the ground displacement of the ground. [a process to decouple signals] and limited sensitivity to north -south displacement. ‘

During the Sagaing error, the researchers waited for the error to take place in 186 miles (300 kilometers), where the earthquake has not taken place since 1839.

The satellite images confirmed that the situation was – but the error was actually more than a total of 310 miles (500km).

In fact, the 310 miles that change with 9.8ft (three meters) after the earthquake.

It is estimated that it will be one of the most destructive earthquakes in history. And now scientists have issued a creepy warning about Mega – Earthquake.

So, what does this mean to the big one?

According to the researchers, it shows that the big one will not resemble anything we have seen before.

Previous earthquakes in the San Andreas error contain a 7.9 -magnitude earthquake that shredded the error from Monterey district to Los Angeles County in 1857.

Meanwhile, in 1906, a overseas earthquake of San Francisco immediately began before Humboldt County and Santa Cruz County hit two directions.

Instead, a future rupture can cause smaller, separate earthquakes.

Or, it can be greater than those seen before – tear the error to San Bernardino, Riverside and Empire districts and reaches 8 size.

Researchers are no longer hoping to use their new models to better understand what the big one will actually resemble.

Professor Avouac, ‘Physical -based models, in principle can be set to observations and can be used for time -dependent prediction, provides an alternative approach,’ ‘he added.