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THE PLOT ABOVE SHOWS:
* The closest 15 stations with phase picks
* 120 seconds of time beginning 20 seconds before the event
* Traces are time aligned
* Green bars represent expected P and S arrival times
Waveform Color Key:
Black: broad-band, high-gain, digital channel
Brown: broad-band, low-gain, digital channel (accelerometer)
Blue: short-period, analog channel
THE PLOT ABOVE SHOWS:
* A set of SCSN stations scattered throughout southern California
* 120 Seconds of time
* Traces are time aligned and sorted by distance from the epicenter.
* Green bars represent expected P and S arrival times
These maps show the predicted (theoretical) travel times, in minutes, of the compressional (P) wave from the earthquake location to points around the globe. The travel times are computed using the spherically-symmetric IASP91 reference earth velocity model. The heavy black lines shown are the approximate distances to the P-wave shadow zone (103 to 140 degrees).
Theoretical P-Wave Travel Times City Distance
(degrees) Travel Time
(min:secs) Arrival Time
UTC Phase
Los Angeles, California 0.41 0:08.2 18:42:23.2 Pg
Phoenix, Arizona 4.77 1:11.5 18:43:26.5 Pn
San Francisco, California 5.37 1:19.7 18:43:34.7 Pn
Albuquerque, New Mexico 9.25 2:13.0 18:44:28.0 Pn
Golden, Colorado 11.60 2:45.1 18:45:00.1 Pn
Seattle, Washington 14.24 3:21.3 18:45:36.3 Pn
Wichita, Kansas 16.99 3:57.2 18:46:12.2 Pn
Brownsville, Texas 19.29 4:24.4 18:46:39.4 P
Mexico City, Mexico 21.99 4:53.6 18:47:08.6 P
St. Louis, Missouri 22.62 5:00.4 18:47:15.4 P
Duluth, Minnesota 23.20 5:06.5 18:47:21.5 P
Knoxville, Tennessee 26.73 5:39.0 18:47:54.0 P
Washington, D.C. 32.94 6:34.0 18:48:49.0 P
Miami, Florida 33.45 6:38.5 18:48:53.5 P
Ottawa, Canada 33.96 6:42.9 18:48:57.9 P
Anchorage, Alaska 34.19 6:44.9 18:48:59.9 P
Philadephia, Pennsylvania 34.31 6:46.0 18:49:01.0 P
New York, New York 35.15 6:53.2 18:49:08.2 P
Boston, Massachusetts 37.26 7:11.2 18:49:26.2 P
Honolulu, Hawaii 37.44 7:12.7 18:49:27.7 P
Bangor, Maine 38.86 7:24.7 18:49:39.7 P
San Juan, Puerto Rico 48.33 8:40.9 18:50:55.9 P
Lima, Peru 59.97 10:05.9 18:52:20.9 P
Bergen, Norway 75.10 11:41.6 18:53:56.6 P
London, England 78.86 12:02.8 18:54:17.8 P
Tokyo, Japan 79.85 12:08.1 18:54:23.1 P
Moscow, Russia 88.22 12:50.7 18:55:05.8 P
Agana, Guam 88.67 12:52.8 18:55:07.8 P
Beijing, China 91.07 13:04.1 18:55:19.1 P
Rome, Italy 91.80 13:07.4 18:55:22.4 P
Wellington, New Zealand 97.19 13:32.0 18:55:47.0 P
Brisbane, Australia 104.21 14:03.2 18:56:18.2 Pdiff
Palmer Station, Antarctica 109.08 14:24.8 18:56:39.8 Pdiff
Kathmandu, Nepal 114.90 14:50.6 18:57:05.6 Pdiff
Nairobi, Kenya 139.73 16:40.8 18:58:55.8 Pdiff
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver 
Earthquake Summary
Small globe showing earthquakeSmall map showing earthquake
Tectonic Summary
The greater Los Angeles area earthquake of 29 July 2008, 11:42 PDT (18:42 UTC), was centered in the hills south of Diamond Bar and Chino Hills. An early analysis of the earthquake's focal mechanism implies that the shock originated as the result of oblique-reverse faulting, in which a block of crust is thrust up and over the crust on the opposite side of the fault and also moves sideways with respect to the crust on the opposite side of the fault. This style of faulting is intermediate between pure reverse faulting and pure strike-slip faulting. The epicenter is in a region of the greater Los Angeles area in which both significant reverse faulting (the Puente Hills thrust) and right-lateral strike-slip faulting (the Whittier fault) have been documented. The early focal-mechanism is thus consistent with the shock having occurred as the result of stresses similar to those which produced previously mapped faults in the earthquake region. At present, however, the shock has not been associated with a specific geologically mapped fault.
The 29 July 2008 was situated about 30 km east-southeast of the Whittier Narrows earthquake of 1 October 1987, which had a magnitude of 6 and which produced over $358 million in damages. The Whittier Narrows earthquake occurred as the result of thrust-faulting (reverse-faulting on a shallowly dipping plane) on the Puente Hills thrust.
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