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Northridge Earthquake Rupture Model

The following is a view of how the Northridge fault plane ruptured during the earthquake. Looking perpendicular to the fault plane, the rupture starts at the lower right corner.

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Click to view movie of the fault rupture


The Slip History of the 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake Determined From Strong-Motion, Teleseismic, GPS, and Leveling Data,Special Northridge Earthquake Issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Our thanks to Dave Wald for providing this rupture animation.

NOTE: To view the rupture model, software to view "mpeg" movies must be installed on your machine.