LORINDA Level Line

Latitude: N 34°25'20"
Longitude: W 119°43'25"

Length: 246.3m
Number of Bench marks: 5

Number of Surveys to 2000:  8
Date of Initial Survey: 11 August 1970
Date of Latest Survey: 30 August 1982

Trespass Permission: None needed

Directions:
From Highway 101 in Santa Barbara, exit at the Mission offramp and go south. Turn right on Chino Street, which is on the right three blocks below the freeway; Lorinda Way branches right off of Chino. Bench mark LW1 is at the intersection of Chino and Mis sion, and the line extends along Chino, Lorinda, and Tinker Way.

Comments:
This short line was established to search for vertical displacement across the Mesa fault which is inferred to pass through this residential area. Residents reported new sags in t he street in 1968 following a series of earthquakes in the Santa Barbara area. A brief driveby on 16 February 1991 revealed bench mark LW2 had been destroyed. Bench marks 700 and LW1 were not noticed but may still exist; the others were still in place.

Results:
As of 1982, we were unable to detect any vertical height changes among any of the bench marks.

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