California is in an earthquake drought. It has been almost five years since the state experienced its last earthquake of magnitude 6 or stronger — in Napa.

Southern California felt its last big quake on Easter Sunday 2010, when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, jolting millions of people from Los Angeles and San Diego to Phoenix and scattering destruction along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Witnesses on both sides of the border reported feeling a strong, rolling series of shakes that unleashed panic in a dozen or more towns and cities. Families in the middle of Easter lunches were sent running for cover.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude of the quake at 7.2 — equal to the force of the earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince in which more than 200,000 people were killed.

The quake, occurring at the junction between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates that grind against each other in California and Baja, moved from the southeast toward the northwest, explaining why Southern California felt it so strongly.

It was said the shaking in Los Angeles lasted a disconcertingly long time with it feeling like a roller coaster that would slow down, then it would pick up even faster.

In a hospital maternity ward, it was said the shaking made the babies drop and the mothers to go into labor, to where they had never had so many babies born in one afternoon.

One person was reported as saying that the shaking was so hard they thought the Earth was going to open up.

Experts say they know this current calm period in California will end, and with destructive results. They just don’t know when the geological pattern will shift but know they will dramatically see a change in earthquakes and rates.

Scientists have been particularly focused on the lack of major seismic activity on several serious California faults — the San Andreas, San Jacinto and Hayward …they’ve been exceedingly quiet.

And Earthquake scientists have been buzzing for years now about California’s hiatus in supersized earthquakes, thinking we could well start a new phase of activity.

The last time California has seen an earthquake as powerful as a magnitude 7.8 was in 1857 in Southern California and 1906 for Northern California. No one alive today has first-hand experience with that kind of quake in the Golden State.

Without a significant earthquake in a generation, it is easy to forget how the world can change when the San Andreas fault ruptures as it did in 1906, which was felt as far away as Oregon, Nevada and Los Angeles.

Back then, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake ruptured much of the length of the state, from Cape Mendocino to near San Juan Bautista. In San Francisco, the shaking lasted a full minute.

Three hours after the first quake, a major aftershock brought down the rest of San Francisco, and gas pipes ruptured igniting fires, and no water was available since those pipes also broke.

The resulting fire was the biggest urban fire in the history of the United States, burning up 75% of San Francisco.

And the scientists are warning of the seismic danger saying that California is in a deficit on earthquakes. They expect the quiet is going to change where there is coming a time of some big earthquakes.

The Biblical prophecies (Matthew 24, Luke 21) foretell that earthquakes will be a sign of the Last Days indicating the coming end of the age and the nearing appearance of Jesus Christ.

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