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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The earthquake was caused by rupture along parts of the Imperial Fault, the Brawley fault zone and the Rico Fault, a previously unknown normal fault near Holtville, though slip was also observed on the Superstition Hills Fault and the San Andreas Fault. The maximum observed right lateral displacement on the Imperial fault—measured within the ...
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 ...
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]
The average timespan between earthquakes over the course of the last millennium has been about 180 years. ... including the nearby San Andreas Fault which runs under the small population town of ...