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Re: valencia-simi EQs
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Posted by Canie on January 29, 2002 at 21:22:06:
Hi Chris - I think this is closer to the Santa Susanna fault - at least the first one, the second one was a little further away - something like 2 mi. NNE of the Santa Susana Fault for the 4.2 and 2 mi N of the Santa Suzanna Fault - There's some interesting info on the SCEC site about the Oak Ridge fault and its relation to the Santa Susanna and Pico Thrust faults: The surface trace of the Oak Ridge thrust is fairly easy to find on just about any map of the area you might have -- it forms a ridge (hence its name) to the south of its trace, and is roughly paralleled by both the Santa Clara River and California State Highway 126, from the town of Piru to the coast, just southeast of Ventura. The Oak Ridge thrust continues off shore, out to a point about 20 kilometers due south of Santa Barbara. The offshore segment is associated with a definite zone of active seismicity, though the only known Holocene surface rupture is found well onshore, between the towns of Bardsdale and Fillmore. At its eastern end, the Oak Ridge thrust becomes progessively more difficult to trace, and appears to be overthrust by the Santa Susana fault, thus becoming a blind thrust fault. Indeed, the fault associated with the 1994 Northridge earthquake is probably part of the Oak Ridge fault system, as it shares many of the characteristics of this fault. This blind thrust fault is known either as the Pico Thrust, named for the Pico Anticline (a geologic fold it is creating), or as the Northridge Thrust, for more obvious reasons. ********************************************************** Canie
Follow Ups:
● 3D views Oak Ridge fault - chris in suburbia 09:07:16 - 1/30/2002 (12828) (1)
● Re: 3D views Oak Ridge fault - Roger Hunter 13:21:24 - 1/30/2002 (12832) (1)
● slow - chris in suburbia 14:34:58 - 1/30/2002 (12838) (1)
● Re: slow - Roger Hunter 16:41:42 - 1/30/2002 (12841) (1)
● of interest to Roger only - chris in suburbia 08:59:29 - 1/31/2002 (12853) (1)
● Re: of interest to Roger only - Roger Hunter 11:21:59 - 1/31/2002 (12855) (0)
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