"Continued rumblings may mean stress in the San Andreas Fault is building for another big quake."

"Contrary to popular belief, the tremors “are not relieving a lot of stress or making the fault less hazardous,” lead author Robert Nadeau, a seismologist at the University of California Berkeley, said in a statement. Instead, they seem to signal a change in the way stress is being distributed in sections of the fault that are “locked” (that is, they haven’t moved, indicating a build up of stress.)"

Knowing a very big one is coming, people are still building over it. One can go to Google Maps and fly along it, see the fault lines, and at the same time where people are developing the area. Residential, commercial, educational and industrial development.

It will be a bit hard to dredge up a lot of sympathy when it happens. However, if the ground drops about 60 feet, there won't be a problem.

Arf