The 1994 Northridge earthquake — a magnitude 6.7 — also occurred on a blind thrust fault, and it spurred research that has given scientists a good understanding of their general layout in the ...

The fault was the source of the Oct. 1, 1987, Whittier Narrows earthquake that caused eight deaths and $358 million in damage, ... A blind thrust fault is not clearly obvious on the surface.

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

Scientists thought the Wilmington blind‐thrust fault that runs deep under the Los Angeles region had been dormant since the Late Pliocene era, millions of years ago. But a new study reveals that ...

Though moving slower, researchers said the Wilmington fault has a similar structure to the source of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which killed 57 people.

A particularly sinister form of fault may lie beneath Marin County and could trigger an earthquake of up to 6.5 magnitude, perhaps during this century, scientists plan to report at the American ...

The magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles in 1994, killing more than 60 people and injuring thousands. This temblor came from the rupture of what's known as a blind-thrust fault ...

“If you uplift the downstream part of the L.A. River by 5 feet in one of these Compton blind thrust earthquakes, well, the river is going to flow backward,” Dolan said.

A stock image of an earthquake crack in the ground. A 7.5 magnitude quake on the Puente Hills thrust fault could kill as many as 18,000 people.

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 ...