When you watch the video below, don't get distracted by the cracking concrete or the metal gate rocking back and forth. Keep ...

Blind thrust faults are buried under the uppermost layers of crust ... to map the deformation of the Earth's surface in images from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite. They discovered that ...

The SFZ is a 5-to 7-km-wide, east-west trending zone of south-dipping thrust faults, north-dipping backthrust faults, and folds that runs through the Seattle urban area. Marine terraces along the ...

Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said the Puente Hills Blind Thrust system was responsible for the quake. The same fault system caused the Whittier Narrows earthquake, a 5.9 temblor that occurred at 7: ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. While California’s 750-mile-long San ...

Main image, a map of Los Angeles. Inset, an image showing earthquake tremors. The Puente Hills thrust fault system may be more dangerous to LA than the San Andreas fault. Main image, a map of Los ...

The Monday quake and recent smaller earthquakes in the vicinity have placed renewed attention on the Puente Hills fault and the dangers it could bring. The Puente Hills thrust fault is a broad ...

That fault plays a starring role in the 1978 movie “Superman,” with an aerial image of it in a sparsely ... By contrast, an earthquake on the Puente Hills thrust fault system probably would ...

Image via Wiki Commons ... Reverse faults, also known as thrust faults, occur in regions where the Earth’s crust is being compressed. In these faults, one block of crust is pushed upward ...

The 4.4 magnitude earthquake that was felt in many Southern California cities Monday fell on the Puente Hills Thrust Fault System, which is potentially the most destructive in the region.