March 29, 2024
Is an earthquake lurking beneath the Palos Verdes Peninsula?
LOS ANGELES – (INT) – Southern Californians have another earthquake worry.

Writing in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, seismologists determined that the slip rate of the Palos Verdes Fault Zone (PVFZ) is significant enough to generate a quake of M7.8 with multiple ruptures. That is stronger than previously estimated and could result in widespread damage.

The scientists wrote Friday that the fault zone “is composed of vertical and moderately dipping segments” along the ocean floor. “Onshore, there is a counterclockwise reorientation in the strike zone, which produces a major restraining bend that generates the Palos Verdes Peninsula.”

Scientists with Harvard University wrote that the fault zone “is considered capable of generating large damaging earthquakes with short recurrence intervals.”

They added that north of the peninsula in Santa Monica Bay, debate persists over the extent, geometry, and activity of the fault zone.
Story Date: September 26, 2022
Real-Time Traffic
NBC
AQMD AQI
Habitat for Humanity
United Way of the Inland Valleys
Pink Ribbon Thrift