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Created by Laurel Goodell, Princeton University

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Google Earth Imagery accessed December 2013

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Google Earth Imagery accessed July 2024

M 5.0+, 1994-2023 earthquake epicenters from the ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat) compiled using the USGS search engine, https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/ accessed July 2024.

Source for on land fault traces: USGS, Quaternary Fault and Fold Database of the United States https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/faults, accessed July 2024.

Source for offshore fault traces: https://www.usgs.gov/data/quaternary-faults-offshore-california, accessed July 2024Walton, M.A.L., Papesh, A.G., Johnson, S.Y., Conrad, J.E., and Brothers, D.S., 2020, Quaternary faults offshore of California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91RYEZ4.

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California population density image overlay onto Google Earth image
Credit: US Census Bureau
Image Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_population_map.png
Accessed: December 2013

Overlain on Google Earth Imagery with data from SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO, LDEO-Columbia, NSF, NOAA.
Accessed via Google Earth December 2013

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Second Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF2), 2007
Southern California Earthquake Center
https://southern.scec.org/research/ucerf2
Accessed July 2024

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