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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday October 09 2016, @11:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the dropping-into-the-sea dept.

A new seismic fault has been discovered in southern California:

A swarm of nearly 200 small earthquakes that shook Southern California residents in the Salton Sea area last week raised concerns they might trigger a larger earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault. At the same time, scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno published their recent discovery of a potentially significant fault that lies along the eastern edge of the Salton Sea.

The presence of the newly mapped Salton Trough Fault, which runs parallel to the San Andreas Fault, could impact current seismic hazard models in the earthquake-prone region that includes the greater Los Angeles area. Mapping of earthquake faults provides important information for earthquake rupture and ground-shaking models, which helps protect lives and reduce property loss from these natural hazards.

Geophysical Evidence for a San Andreas Subparallel Transtensional Fault along the Northeastern Shore of the Salton Sea (DOI: 10.1785/0120150350) (DX) [Paywalled]


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by ShadowSystems on Sunday October 09 2016, @03:41PM

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Sunday October 09 2016, @03:41PM (#412082)

    You mean Los Angeles, Hollywood, & the MPAA/RIAA weren't enough faults already?

    OH! An *Earthquake* Fault! My bad...

    Nevermind, nothing to see here, please move along...
    *Wanders off singing "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys*

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday October 09 2016, @03:49PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday October 09 2016, @03:49PM (#412084) Journal

    I knew I should have put "seismic" in the headline.

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    • (Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:03PM

      by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:03PM (#412090)

      So the ass end of California keeps shaking?

      (Sarcastic Ghetto Rat) Dat's a lotta funk in da trunk! (/twit)

      =-D

      *Runs away laughing*

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:20PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:20PM (#412097)

        It's going to be named "Kardashian" fault line because it wiggles and shakes.