[PennyB]

(05-03-2015, 05:51 PM)Island Chris Wrote: The quake is a thrust, and is now M3.8. There is some compression/shortening along the Newport-Inglewood fault, so entirely possible that the quake is within the overall right-lateral zone.

I am not checking the location against the mapped fault, so could be wrong on some of this.

Chris

2 quakes of 3 plus in the last couple of weeks on this fault. It would indeed be a dreadful disaster if a repeat of 1933 occurred. Dense population and poorly consolidated alluvium all around.