Earthquake

Los Angeles’ preliminary earthquake fault study zone

Los Angeles May­or Eric Gar­cetti an­nounced three new earth­quake pre­lim­in­ary fault study zones for the Hol­ly­wood-Ray­mond, Pa­los Verdes and Santa Mon­ica fault sys­tems.
The new zones, colored in blue, yel­low, and aqua, mean that de­velopers will need to de­term­ine if an earth­quake fault is present or ab­sent un­der the pro­posed con­struc­tion site.
To find if your prop­erty is in the new zone, go to zi­mas.la­city.org, type in your ad­dress, and se­lect the “Plan­ning and
Zon­ing” link and look to see if “Pre­lim­in­ary Alquist-Pri­olo Fault Study Zone” is lis­ted.
An in­ter­act­ive map of the new zone is at nav­ig­atela.la­city.org. Click on the first icon to the left, which will show a table of con­tents. Click on the file folders next to “Geo­tech­nic­al.” Then check the box next to “Pre­lim­in­ary Fault Rup­ture Study Areas.”