Shoreline Fault is a 25 km long vertical strike-slip fault[1] discovered in 2008 that lies less than a mile from the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California. It is thought to be able to produce quakes up to 6.8 magnitude.[2] The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors claims that it (along with the Hosgri fault) may potentially pose a threat to the nuclear plant despite the plant's operator, Pacific Gas and Electric, claiming that the facility is able to withstand a 7.5 magnitude quake.[3]

References

  1. ^ ScienceDaily:Revised Seismotectonic Model for California Central Coast: More Complex Than Previously Thought
  2. ^ Jeanne L. Hardebeck (February 2013). "Geometry and Earthquake Potential of the Shoreline Fault, Central California". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 103 (1): 447–462. Bibcode:2013BuSSA.103..447H. doi:10.1785/0120120175. ISSN 1943-3573. Wikidata Q59849516.
  3. ^ Santa Maria Times:Supervisors request delay for Diablo relicensing

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Seismically active fault zones and tectonic blocks of California
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