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Landsat of the San Andreas Fault
Mapping California Earthquake Faults from the Air
January 15, 2008 | The Press Democrat

Earthquake producing faults in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties, California are being mapped by low-level aircraft owned by Excel Airborne Geophysics of High River, Alberta, Canada. They are flying at about 1,000 feet while measuring local variations in the earth’s magnetic field. They hope that the data will reveal subsurface faults.

Zoom in on the San Andreas Fault with a Google Map by David Lynch and Bradley Cole.


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