This may be "The Warning"!

Rosh Chodesh Nisan

4.4 at 4:04

Quake

Pico Rivera California

A Times article from 2003 said that the Puente Hills system could touch off a 7.5 temblor directly underneath downtown Los Angeles.

Sue Hough, a seismologist in the Pasadena office of the U.S. Geological Survey, added: "This is the fault that could eat L.A."

The original Times story in 2003 can be found here, while the press release on the study, published in the journal Science, can be found here.

“Puente Hills system could touch off a 7.5 temblor directly beneath downtown. The good news? It might be thousands of years away.”

“An extensive fault system discovered four years ago running deep beneath the heart of Los Angeles is capable of generating earthquakes up to magnitude 7.5 -- massive shakers larger than any in the modern history of the Los Angeles Basin.”

Map: Quake simulation on Puente Hills thrust fault.

Credit: San Diego Supercomputer Center.