Long Valley Caldera, USA
From series “Sleeping Super-Volcanoes Capable of Destroying Whole Regions”
Long Valley Caldera is situated in Eastern California. It has taken an area of 32 kilometres long and 18 kilometres width. For the last two million years, the activity of the super volcano has drastically decreased. The last eruption was 76 000 years ago. However, for last years the earthquake activity of this region has increased. At this period a lot of cities of the state has experienced the series of earthquakes. In 2015 the intense earthquakes happened near Los Angeles and not far from San Francisco.
Many researchers claim that nuclear tests in Nevada state have increased the seismic activity of the region. In the second part of the 20th century near the super volcano, in 150 kilometres, was done a series of all-powerful nuclear bursts. Recent years the researchers inspected an extremal upheaval, there were registered constant shocks of earthquake.
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