Researchers: California Long Overdue for Big Earthquake, Experiencing 100-Year ‘Drought’

Aerial view of wrecked cars litter the connector ramp from Interstate 5 to Highway 14 following the Northridge earthquake, in Northridge, Calif., on Jan. 17, 1994. Carlos Schiebeck/AFP/Getty Images

Researchers have suggested that while California is in the midst of an earthquake drought, a quake with a magnitude of 7.0 or greater is long overdue.

A study in the Seismological Research Letters published on April 3 said that the current drought in quakes is not like any other in the past 1,000 years.