Have some Los Angeles faults!

On the left is the Puente Hills Fault, a blind thrust fault that sits directly under downtown L.A. (and who isn’t thrilled that this city was put on top of him since he couldn’t see what was going on).

In the center is the Newport-Inglewood Fault, a right-lateral strike-slip fault that goes from offshore Oceanside, through most of Orange County’s beaches, and to Culver City. This fault was responsible for the M6.4 1933 Long Beach earthquake.

On the right is the Hollywood Fault, a left-lateral/reverse fault who parallels Hollywood Boulevard from slightly east of the 101 freeway into Beverly Hills. A M3.4 on this fault freaked people out a few weeks ago, so anything bigger could be bad news.

(Source: seismogenic)

A few years ago, I drew some comics starring personifications of California’s faults for an outreach event. Due to lack of funding, we were never able to get the comics printed. There’s another outreach event coming up, though, and I’ll get to bring the comics to this one. I can’t look at the stuff from 2009 without thinking about how terrible it looks, so I’m redrawing things. Luckily, this event only focuses on the southern desert faults, so I don’t have to redraw all 28 pages right now!

(Source: seismogenic)