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Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2360

Surface Fractures Formed in the Potrero Canyon, Tapo Canyon, and McBean Parkway Areas in Association with the 1994 Northridge, California Earthquake

By Michael J. Rymer, Jerome A. Treiman, Thomas J. Powers, Thomas E. Fumal, David P. Schwartz, John C. Hamilton, and Francesca R. Cinti

2001

Photograph of uplifted sediments in Potrero Canyon as a result of the magnitude 6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Surface fracture produced by the magnitude 6.7 (M6.7) 1994 Northridge earthquake showing uplifted plates of sediment produced by the large vertical component of slip on north side of Potrero Canyon. The fracture has developed at base of hillslope near contact between bedrock and alluvium. View is to the northeast; geologist for scale.


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