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Ventura Fault tsunami threat - Skywise - 04-20-2015
Earthquake fault heightens California tsunami threat, experts say
"For decades, some seismic experts believed the Ventura fault posed only a moderate threat and was incapable of producing a major temblor.
But research in recent years shows that the fault is extremely dangerous, capable of producing an earthquake as large as magnitude 8 as well as severe tsunamis that until now experts didn't believe were possible from a Southern California quake."
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ventura-fault-20150420-story.html
Story references:
Structure and Seismic Hazard of the Ventura Avenue Anticline and Ventura Fault, California: Prospect for Large, Multisegment Ruptures in the Western Transverse Ranges
http://www.bssaonline.org/content/early/2014/04/29/0120130125.abstract
Brian
RE: Ventura Fault tsunami threat - Island Chris - 04-21-2015
Thanks Brian,
That is the fault system I am working on. Note the simple fault model in the article, from the Hubbard and others papers, vs. the complicated geometry on the figure from my talk at USGS. I forwarded the link to someone at USGS working on the system, as well as someone at UCSB working with me.
I get a bit of heartburn (wrong word?) because we did a lot of work on this system in the late 1990s and did not publish it; it is on Sorlien & Kamerling USGS reports, especially 2000, and is part of the SCEC Community fault model, as well as many abstracts. My current work will get published, but in 2016.
Chris