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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]
San Andreas Fault San Andreas Fault in the Bay Area Mission San Jose (Ohlone) people. The San Andreas Fault (pictured) begins to form in the mid Cenozoic about 30 million years ago; 9.5 million years ago, the Moraga Volcanics produces most of the lavas that underlie the East Bay ridges from present day Tilden Regional Park to Moraga
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 ...
This section of the San Andreas, located near the tiny central Californian town of Parkfield, last shook back in 2004. ... odds that a big earthquake will hit the fault line within 50 years ...
Scientists estimate that this section of fault—over the past 1,000 years—usually triggered a sizable earthquake every 180 years (give or take 40). But the southern San Andreas Fault (SSAF ...
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 plate margin that remains in California is that of the strike-slip San Andreas Fault (SAF), the diffuse Pacific–North American plate boundary that extends east into the Basin and Range Province of eastern California and western Nevada (a seismically active area called Walker Lane) and southwest into the California Continental Borderland ...
Based on geological sampling, the fault created approximately 1.5 meters (5.0 feet) of slip. [1] For years, another large earthquake was said to have occurred two years earlier on June 10, 1836, along the Hayward fault; [6] however, this is now believed to be referring to the 1838 San Andreas earthquake. [7]