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- The Mount Diablo Thrust Fault is capable of generating an earthquake of magnitude M W = 6.7.
- The 1994 Northridge quake, linked to a blind thrust fault near Los Angeles, registered 6 . 7.
- Until now, most scientists believed blind thrust faults produced quakes of only up to 6 . 75-magnitude.
- They are thought to have combusted after the development of the Cerrej�n thrust fault and alluvial fan.
- Thrust faults lie at low angles, unlike the familiar vertical faults like the San Andreas and Hayward.
- Because of the lack of surface evidence, blind thrust faults are difficult to detect until they rupture.
- The hour explains how the Northridge temblor baffled the experts, coming on a previously unmapped thrust fault.
- Blind-thrust faults produce earthquakes when one block pushes upward over another, as if moving up a ramp.
- Thrust faults do so when one block pushes upward over another, as if moving up a ramp.
- They also hope to pinpoint previously unmapped thrust faults, like the one responsible for the deadly Northridge Earthquake.