she must have meant on unknown fault
Posted by John Vidale on March 07, 2003 at 04:30:38:

Petra,

Check out the fault map:
http://www.scecdc.scec.org/lafault.html#MAP

Northridge is the lavender line crossing the pink one
north of highway 101.

That line wasn't there in 1994, but there is a clear system of thrust faults trending east-west,
so no one should have been surprised a thrust quake
struck there.

John

Follow Ups:
     ● Re: she must have meant on unknown fault - chris in suburbia  20:33:25 - 3/7/2003  (18217)  (1)
        ● offshore faults - John Vidale  07:41:39 - 3/8/2003  (18221)  (1)
           ● Re: offshore faults - chris in suburbia  12:11:32 - 3/8/2003  (18225)  (1)
              ● tsunami evidence - John Vidale  12:31:55 - 3/8/2003  (18226)  (2)
                 ● Re: tsunami evidence - chris in suburbia  06:47:56 - 3/9/2003  (18233)  (1)
                    ● thanks for the info - John Vidale  09:00:35 - 3/9/2003  (18234)  (0)
                 ● Re: tsunami evidence - Canie  12:42:57 - 3/8/2003  (18227)  (0)
     ● not my specialty, but - John Vidale  19:10:46 - 3/7/2003  (18215)  (0)
     ● Re: she must have meant on unknown fault - Petra Challus  18:14:05 - 3/7/2003  (18211)  (1)
        ● Re: she must have meant on unknown fault - chris in suburbia  20:40:38 - 3/7/2003  (18218)  (0)