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Jim Doyle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-5011)
RELEASE: 94-19
Oat Mountain in the Santa Susana range, just north of the San
Fernando Valley, jumped several inches during the 6.6 earthquake
that struck Los Angeles on Jan. 17, said a scientist at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif.
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Donnellan had been studying the basin since 1987 and came to
the conclusion its deep faults were capable of causing a serious
earthquake. In a paper she published in the science journal
Nature last November, she predicted the basin could suffer an
approximately 6.4-magnitude earthquake.
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