Therefore, while the San Andreas fault may generate more powerful earthquakes—up to magnitudes of around 8.0 or even higher—the location of the Puente Hills thrust fault makes it a major hazard.

Millions of people are directly on top of the Puente Hills Thrust Fault where this week’s earthquake fell. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, August 13, 2024.

While California’s 750-mile-long San Andreas Fault is notorious, experts believe a smaller fault line possesses a greater threat to lives and property in the southern part of the state ...

The Puente Hills thrust fault was discovered only recently — in 1999 — by John Shaw of Harvard University and Peter Shearer of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, who ...

Preliminary data suggest Friday night’s 5.1 magnitude earthquake near La Habra occurred on the Puente Hills thrust fault, which stretches from the San Gabriel Valley to downtown Los Angeles and ...

More small faults could be buried underground and just haven't revealed themselves yet. So the latest observation of a buried thrust fault within the city "shouldn't come as any big surprise ...

The Wilmington fault’s structure is similar to the source of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, researchers learned. That 6.7 quake killed 57 people, injured thousands more and caused $20 billion ...

A 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles in August was along the Puente Hills fault system, a thrust fault that runs beneath one of the city's oldest and most densely populated areas.