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Early studies indicated the earthquake was on the Newport-Inglewood fault, but a later study in 2002 indicated the San Andreas fault was the cause. Other faults have been suggested, but the San Andreas fault is considered the most likely fault. Around 40 people died, and the magnitude ranged from 6.9-7.5. [32]
The San Andreas Fault System is an active plate boundary comprising right-lateral strike-slip faults that runs nearly the length of California. This network of faults trends north-northwest in the area of the West Napa Fault, where it is 50 miles (80 km) wide from west to east.
Multiple earthquakes shook California's Bay Area Thursday. They were recorded near Hayward, around 20 miles southeast of Oakland, the USGS reported. ... #earthquake — The San Andreas Fault ...
Scientists believe they may have found a reason why the San Andreas Fault, the largest seismic hazard in California, has been dormant for more than three centuries.. The average timespan between ...
A simulation of a plausible major southern San Andreas fault earthquake — a magnitude 7.8 that begins near the Mexican border along the fault plane and unzips all the way to L.A. County's ...
The San Andreas fault runs through this town, and six successive magnitude 6 earthquakes occurred on the fault at unusually regular intervals, between 12 and 32 years apart (with an average of every 22 years), between 1857 and 1966. [1] The latest major earthquake in the region struck on September 28, 2004.
Simplified fault map of southern California The faults of Southern California viewed to the southeast, as modeled by the Southern California Earthquake Center. Highlighted in purple are the San Andreas Fault (left) and Santa Monica Bay complex (right). The foreground is in the Santa Barbara Channel, the east-trending zone marks the Transverse ...
The 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines in the world. A meeting of the North American and Pacific tectonic plates, this transform fault (where two tectonic plates move ...