Late quaternary activity and seismic potential of the Santa Monica fault system, Los Angeles, California

• Main Authors: Sieh, Kerry, Dolan, James F., Rockwell, Thomas K.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95271; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8874
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Santa Monica fault is a 40-km-long, oblique left-lateral reverse fault that extends through the densely urbanized northwestern Los Angeles, California, area and offshore parallel to the Malibu coast. The fault exhibits near-surface strain partitioning in paleoseismologic trenches, and has underg...