An earthquake fault long thought dormant could devastate Los Angeles, researchers say
, a doctoral student in the structural modeling and earth resources group at Harvard, has found that the Wilmington Blind Thrust Fault is in fact alive and kicking and could affect the overlying ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The Wilmington fault is known as a Blind-Thrust fault, which means the fault itself doesn’t reach the surface of the Earth. There are no hills, cracks or breaks to indicate its existence. Further research revealed that he was right. The folding in both the deep rock and the very shallow rock appeared to be caused by the same fault. That meant the Wilmington Fault was still active.
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