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The Santa Susana Field Laboratory ( SSFL ), formerly known as Rocketdyne, is a complex of industrial research and development facilities located on a 2,668-acre (1,080 ha) [ 1] portion of Southern California in an unincorporated area of Ventura County in the Simi Hills between Simi Valley and Los Angeles. The site is located approximately 18 ...
The Aliso Canyon Oil Field (also Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Field, Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Facility) is an oil field and natural gas storage facility in the Santa Susana Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, north of the Porter Ranch neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. Discovered in 1938 and quickly developed ...
Prunus ilicifolia flowers. It is an evergreen shrub [4] or small tree approaching 15 metres (49 feet) in height, [12] with dense, hard leaves [4] ( sclerophyllous foliage). The leaves are 1.6–12 centimetres ( – inches) long with a 4–25 millimetres ( –1 in) petiole [12] and spiny margins, somewhat resembling those of the holly.
North Hills, Los Angeles. / 34.23556°N 118.48500°W / 34.23556; -118.48500. North Hills, known previously as Sepulveda, is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California . North Hills was originally part of an agricultural community known as Mission Acres. After WWII, the newly developed suburban community ...
Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park is located in the Simi Hills, just south of the Santa Susana Pass, at the northwestern edge of the San Fernando Valley. The Santa Susana Mountains are not as steep or high as the San Gabriel Mountains. The western half of the range lies in Ventura County, and the eastern half lies in Los Angeles County.
Pacoima's written history dates to 1769 when Spaniards entered the San Fernando Valley. [13] In 1771, nearby Mission San Fernando Rey was founded, with Native Americans creating gardens for the mission in the area. [14] They lived at the mission working on the gardens which, in a few years, had stretched out over most of the valley. [15]
The San Fernando Valley, [ 1] known locally as the Valley, [ 2][ 3] is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Situated northwards of the Los Angeles Basin, it comprises a large portion of Los Angeles, the incorporated cities of Burbank, Calabasas, Glendale, Hidden Hills and San Fernando, plus several unincorporated areas. [ 4]
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 ...