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Earthquake fault heightens California tsunami threat, experts say

"For decades, some seismic experts believed the Ventura fault posed only a moderate threat and was incapable of producing a major temblor.

But research in recent years shows that the fault is extremely dangerous, capable of producing an earthquake as large as magnitude 8 as well as severe tsunamis that until now experts didn't believe were possible from a Southern California quake."

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/...story.html


Story references:

Structure and Seismic Hazard of the Ventura Avenue Anticline and Ventura Fault, California: Prospect for Large, Multisegment Ruptures in the Western Transverse Ranges

http://www.bssaonline.org/content/early/...5.abstract

Brian