Penny, The Carpinteria fault is South-dipping and south-side up. The Red Mountain fault is North-dipping and North-side-up. The Carpinteria may be a backthrust to the Red Mountain. There were swarms in the 60s and 70s in the Channel, before my time in the area, but it has been rather quiet since I arrived there in 1988. I think it was Ed Keller who called some fault out there the Beast in the Channel....I forget if it was the S-dipping Oak Ridge fault (that I work on and just happen to be working on this evening), or the deep Channel Islands thrust.

Or, he may have been talking about the N-dipping coastal thrust system: Red Mountain, which steps a lot of its thrust slip over to the south to the Pitas Point/North Channel faults system. These are the worst hazard to Carpinteria-Santa Barbara-Goleta including UCSB campus.
Chris