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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 ...
California Coast, Los Angeles to San Diego Bay. The Elsinore Fault Zone is labeled in the center running along the Santa Ana Mountains. NASA photo, 2008. The Elsinore Fault Zone is a large right-lateral strike-slip geological fault structure in Southern California.
The Ventura Fault (in red), Southern California 34°18′00″N 119°09′00″W / 34.3000°N 119.1500°W / 34.3000; -119.1500 [ 1 ] Ventura Fault also Ventura-Pitas Point Fault is an offshore and onshore fault system of Southern California, beginning around Santa Barbara coming onshore in Ventura with an eastward heading, [ 2 ] its ...
Santa Ynez Fault is a left-reverse fault in Santa Barbara County of California. [1] Its length is at least 130 km., [ 2 ] running through Santa Ynez and north of nearby Santa Barbara . The Santa Ynez Mountains were uplifted within the last 5 million years, [ 3 ] mostly along this fault, which marks the north slope of the range.
The San Diego Trough Fault Zone is a group of connected right-lateral strike-slip faults that run parallel to the coast of Southern California, United States, for 150–166 km (93–103 mi). The fault zone takes up 25% of the slip within the Inner Continental Borderlands. Portions of the fault get within 30 km (19 mi) of populated cities ...
A full fault rupture, estimated to be around a 7.5 magnitude, could kill between 3,000 and 18,000 people, according to US Geological Survey and Southern California Earthquake Center.
In Southern California, the last major earthquake on the San Andreas fault was in 1857, estimated at somewhere around a magnitude 7.8. But even moderate quakes along the Puente Hills thrust fault ...
A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck in the waters off Catalina Island on Sunday evening on the heels of two smaller quakes in the same area.