Pinning L.A. quakes down to a fault

Seismologists have identified a dangerous fault hidden beneath Los Angeles.

References:

Shaw, J.H., and P.M. Shearer. 1999. An elusive blind-thrust fault beneath metropolitan Los Angeles. Science 283(March 5):1516.

Sources:

James F. Dolan
University of Southern California
Department of Earth Sciences
Mailstop Code 0740
Los Angeles, CA 90089

John H. Shaw
Harvard University
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Cambridge, MA 02138

Peter M. Shearer
University of California, San Diego
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 12, March 20, 1999, p. 191. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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