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Although such earthquakes are not amongst the most energetic, they are sometimes the most destructive, as conditions
combine to form an urban earthquake which greatly affects urban seismic risk.
Contents
Blind thrust faults
Examples of occurrence
Some known faults
Specific events
References
If the region is under active compression these faults are constantly rupturing, but any given valley might only experience
a large earthquake every few hundred years. Although usually of magnitude 6 to 7 compared to the largest magnitude 9
earthquakes of recent times, such a temblor is especially destructive because the seismic waves are highly directed, and the
soft basin soil of the valley can amplify the ground motions tenfold or more.
It is said that blind thrust earthquakes contribute more to urban seismic risk than the 'big ones' of magnitude 8 or more.[3]
Examples of occurrence
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Specific events
1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
2012 Visayas earthquake
References
1. "Earthquake Glossary - blind thrust fault" (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=blind%20thrust%20fault).
USGS. 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
2. Pratt, Thomas L.; Shaw, John H.; Dolan, James F.; Christofferson, Shari A.; Williams, Robert A.; Odum, Jack K.;
Plesch, Andreas (2002). "Shallow seismic imaging of folds above the Puente Hills blind-thrust fault, Los Angeles,
California" (https://web.archive.org/web/20050305030422/http://faculty.washington.edu/tpratt/GRL02.pdf) (PDF).
Geophysical Research Letters. 29 (9): 18–1. Bibcode:2002GeoRL..29.1304P (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002Ge
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on March 5, 2005. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
3. Washington Post, "7.5 quake on California fault could be disastrous", 30 March 2014 (https://www.washingtonpost.co
m/national/health-science/75-quake-on-california-fault-could-be-disastrous/2014/03/30/1deeff0a-b829-11e3-80de-2ff8
801f27af_story.html): accessed 30 March 2014. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20140330204859/http://www.w
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9-11e3-80de-2ff8801f27af_story.html) 30 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
4. Shaw, John H.; Suppe, John (1996). "Earthquake hazards of active blind-thrust faults under the central Los Angeles
basin, California". Journal of Geophysical Research. 101 (B4): 8623. Bibcode:1996JGR...101.8623S (http://adsabs.ha
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5. Shaw, John H. (1999-03-05). "An Elusive Blind-Thrust Fault Beneath Metropolitan Los Angeles" (http://www.sciencem
ag.org/cgi/content/abstract/283/5407/1516?ck=nck). Science. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
6. Perlman, D. "L.A. moves with water table / Changing water table moves L.A. / City rises and falls with annual
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