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  2. Puente Hills Fault - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Basin is situated along the coast of Southern California at the confluence of the Transverse Ranges and the Peninsular Ranges.The basin is under the influence of several strike-slip and blind thrust faults with geodetic studies providing evidence of the northern basin being shortened in the north-south or northeast-southwest directions at a rate of 4.5–5 millimetres (0.18–0 ...

  3. San Andreas Fault - Wikipedia

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    San Andreas Fault. /  35.117°N 119.650°W  / 35.117; -119.650. The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

  4. Raymond Fault - Wikipedia

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    The fault is very straight and follows a WbS path. It then goes straight west through Arcadia and the Santa Anita Racetrack in the San Gabriel Valley, and then forms the San Rafael Hills in San Marino and South Pasadena, and Raymond Hill, after which the fault is named. Los Angeles–Ventura areas

  5. A Crucial Part of the San Andreas Fault Has Been ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. 1994 Northridge earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Casualties. 57 killed. > 8,700 injured. Magnitude of the earthquake and aftershocks. The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment magnitude 6.7 ( Mw ), [8] blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles.

  7. Researchers gain clearest picture yet of fault that threatens ...

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    A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.

  8. A magnitude 4.2 earthquake shakes a wide area of Southern ...

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    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of ...

  9. Northridge Blind Thrust Fault - Wikipedia

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    The Northridge Blind Thrust Fault (also known as the Pico Thrust Fault) is a thrust fault that is located in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. It is the fault that triggered the Mw 6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake which caused $ 13–50 billion in property damage (equivalent to 24–93 billion today) and was one of the costliest ...

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