The Puente Hills Fault (also known as the Puente Hills Thrust Fault System) is an active geological fault that is located in the Los Angeles Basin in California. The thrust fault was discovered in 1999 and runs about 40 km (25 mi) in three discrete sections from the Puente Hills region in the southeast to just south of Griffith Park in the ...

2024年8月14日 · According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Monday’s 4.4 magnitude earthquake near Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood occurred along the Puente Hills Fault, also known as the Puente Hills...

2024年8月13日 · 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.

2024年8月17日 · The Puente Hills fault system is back in focus after a 4.4-magnitude earthquake near Highland Park. It is one of several similar faults in the Los Angeles Basin.

2020年11月1日 · But Angelenos have been overlooking a closer and even more deadly monster: the Puente Hills fault, which could kill more people and cause more damage than the San Andreas in the LA area because it lies under vulnerable, older neighborhoods, and can produce heavy reverberations felt over a wide area.

2023年1月4日 · Experts indicate the Puente Hills fault could kill more people and cause more damage in the Los Angeles area than the more-distant San Andreas because it lies creeping underneath skyscrapers, heavily traveled bridges and freeways, old industrial buildings, and neighborhoods with vulnerable multifamily housing.

2024年8月14日 · The USGS has estimated that a major magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault could kill about 1,800 people, while a 7.5 magnitude quake on the Puente Hills thrust fault could kill...

2024年8月15日 · Monday's earthquake happened along the Puente Hills thrust fault system, stretching from the southern San Gabriel Valley through downtown L.A. and out to Hollywood. It's a complex web of buried...

2002年1月1日 · We describe the three-dimensional geometry and Quaternary slip history of the Puente Hills blind-thrust system (PHT) using seismic reflection profiles, petroleum well data, and precisely located seismicity.

The PHT generated the 1987 Whittier Narrows (moment magnitude [Mw] 6.0) earthquake and extends for more than 40 km along strike beneath the northern Los Angeles basin. The PHT comprises three, north-dipping ramp segments that are overlain by …