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Los Angeles and the San Andreas fault

by

Nasa/USGS/Novapix

Reference

t-nacal-00003

Date

2007-03-06

Perspective view of Los Angeles, San Gabriel Mountains and Mojave Desert. The San Andreas fault divides the region in forming a straight topographical boundary between the top center and lower right corner of the image.Landsat-7 picture acquired on May 4 2001 combined with a radar image from SRTM, on board the space shuttle Endeavour on February 11 2000.