A new study published on May 30 in the Journal of Geophysical Research has revealed that there is a great threat of Tsunami in Southern California followed by an earthquake.

The information of the upcoming disaster was collected through a mix of new and old technology and conclusions being made are based on decades old information.

Researchers have pointed out to the possibility of huge earthquakes and tsunamis that could be generated by seven major faults spread across the sea from Southern California to north of Baja, California. According to them, these faults are apparently capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake.

Lead author Mark Legg of the Legg Geophysical in California and his team has been trying to understand the numerous fault lines under the ocean in the region in a better manner.

Researchers consider that these vertical fault zones were also responsible of causing displacement of the seafloor long ago.

Legg has confirmed the presence of a ‘complicated logjam’ of faults in the California Continental Borderland Region. He believes that this seismic region is capable of inducing an earthquake, followed by a tsunami.

Legg mentioned that the logjam has created a blockage in the Earth's crust. These blocks are now stuck together, wedged from the San Andreas Fault in the east with western continental shelf, located 200 kilometers out in the ocean.

The blocks then get squeezed when the plates are sliding within each other. It has been described as a continental collision in which this complicated logjam is capable of disrupting these plates and creates fault lines.