Cracking Los Angeles

John H. Shaw ()
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Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6691, 320-321

Abstract: The Los Angeles area is prone to earthquakes because it is caught between converging tectonic plates and cut by geological faults of many shapes and sizes. New estimates of movement along some faults of a particular type (strike-slip) are as much as four times higher than previous values, and imply that these faults may pose more of an earthquake hazard than had been thought.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/28498

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