(a) Topographic map of southern California centered on the LA region. The rectangle shows the areal extent of the simulation. The SAF is shown by the green line, our approximation of the fault by the dashed white line. Thick solid white line is the coastline of southern CA. The thin white lines depict major freeways in the modeling area. The dashed white line B-B' is a profile used for displaying seismograms. A is Anaheim, CP is Compton, DN is Downey, HB is Huntington Beach, IN is Inglewood, SA is Santa Ana, and SM is Santa Monica.

Topographic map of the Los Angeles area model. The dash-dot lines show the surface projections of faults where we have simulated ruptures in this study: Palos Verdes (PV), Elysian Park (EP), Santa Monica (SM), northern Newport-Inglewood (NI), and the faults that ruptured during the 1994 M 6.7 Northridge (NR), the 1933 M 6.4 Long Beach (LB), and the 1987 M 5.9 Whittier-Narrows (WN) events. The thin solid lines depict major freeways in the modeling area. A is Anaheim, CP is Compton, DN is Downey, HB is Huntington Beach, IN is Inglewood, SA is Santa Ana, and SM is Santa Monica.