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Local Geophysicist Examines San Diego Earthquakes

Earthquakes are part of life in California. Jose Otero, an instrumentation geophysicist from UCSD, describes the major fault lines in our region, the latest research on earthquakes, and how likely th

Local Geophysicist Examines San Diego Earthquakes

(Guest Host Alan Ray): It's one of those stories that makes you sit up and say, "oh, really?" KPBS reporter Alison St. John covered it last December. Word that there's a lattice work of seismic fault lines under a major redevelopment area on the San Diego waterfront. And that yes, an earthquake could happen here, too.  Guest

  • Jose Otero , instrumentation geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD.