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  Hollywood Fault

TYPE OF FAULT: left-reverse
LENGTH: 15 km
NEARBY COMMUNITIES: Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Glendale
MOST RECENT SURFACE RUPTURE: Holocene
SLIP RATE: between 0.33 mm/yr and 0.75 mm/yr
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: 1600 years (?)
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW5.8 - 6.5, alone;
larger if rupture is simultaneous with an adjacent fault
OTHER NOTES: Could be considered a westward extension of the Raymond fault. Roughly parallel to the Santa Monica fault.

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LOS ANGELES FAULT MAP