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Description: 3D perspective view of California (outlined in white) and buffer zone showing the 2,606 fault sections of UCERF 3.1, with white boxes showing the San Francisco Bay (SF) and Los Angeles (LA) areas. Colors show the estimated probability of a section participating in one or more M ≥ 6.7 earthquakes in the 30 years following 2014, accounting for the current level of stress accumulated since the last earthquake. This version's scale uses percentages. Citation: WGCEP (2015-03), “UCERF3: A New Earthquake Forecast for California's Complex Fault System”, in U.S. Geological Survey[1], volume Fact Sheet 2015-3009, DOI:10.3133/fs20153009, ISSN 2327-6932 (online).
Title: UCERF3 fig01-b
Credit: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2015/3009/pdf/fs2015-3009.pdf
Author: Created by the WGCEP 2014 team, a collaboration of the U.S. Geological Survey, the California Geological Survey, and the Southern California Earthquake Center.
Permission: This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.
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