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Los Angeles and the San Andreas fault

author: Nasa/USGS/Novapix

reference: t-nacal-00003

Image Size 300 DPI: 37 * 16 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

2001 - CITY - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - FAULT - GEOLOGY - LANDSAT - LANDSAT-7 - LOS ANGELES - MOUNTAIN - RADAR - SAN ANDREAS - SRTM - TECTONIC - USA - VALLEY -