The fault was the source of the Oct. 1, 1987, Whittier Narrows earthquake that caused eight deaths and $358 million in damage, Shaw said. It was a magnitude 5.9 – 6.0 quake.

The Sierra Madre-Cucamonga thrust fault system lies along the base of the San Gabriel Mountains and may produce magnitude 7.5 earthquakes.

Nepal earthquake "damaged Main Himalayan Thrust fault" ⊕ "Rupture stopped halfway at 11 km under Kathmandu" ⊕ "Stop is temporary, further rupture is yet to happen" ...

After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30, 2025, the world watched as the resultant tsunami spread from the epicenter and across the ...

Monday’s magnitude 4.4 quake that rattled Southern California is believed to have struck on a well-known and dangerous fault system known as the Puente Hills thrust fault system.

For decades, scientists have debated the structure of the Main Himalayan Thrust -- the fault responsible for a 2015 earthquake that killed nearly 9,000 people, injured 22,000, and destroyed ...

A magnitude 7.5 quake in the Puente Hills thrust fault system — which runs under highly populated areas of L.A. and Orange counties — could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people, according to the U.S ...

They found that a large earthquake along the northern section of the San Jacinto fault could cascade down to the Sierra Madre-Cucamonga system, with the potential to cause a 7.5 magnitude ...

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.

In a particularly dramatic example, a thrust fault pushed crustal materials (arrows) up the side of the farside impact crater named Gregory (2.1°N, 128.1°E).

Monday's magnitude 4.4 quake that rattled Southern California is believed to have struck on a well-known and dangerous fault system known as the Puente Hills thrust fault system.