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Recent earthquakes raise concern over lesser-known - but dangerous - Puente Hills fault
Monday's earthquake happened along the Puente Hills thrust fault system, stretching from the southern San Gabriel Valley ...
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Earthquakes: LA Has Bigger Threat Than San Andreas Fault
While neither caused any major damage, experts have warned that Monday's quake may have been associated with the Puente Hills thrust fault, which could one day cause a huge earthquake in Los Angeles.
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Megathrust earthquakes: Modeling the long and short of subduction zones
The new model, which simulates movements along a 4,040 × 660-square-kilometer thrust fault area, predicts plate movement of around 5 centimeters per year and ruptures with around 10 meters of ...
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Emmaline Atherton
The Himalayan Orogen is characterized by a series of north-dipping thrust faults and shear zones formed as a result of the ongoing convergence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. The Main ...