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Hollywood Fault

TYPE OF FAULTING: 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: M_W5.8 - 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.

References

This fault is featured on the following map:
Los Angeles Fault Map