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The Cerro Prieto Fault is a transform fault located in far northern Baja California. It runs between the Cerro Prieto spreading center located southwest of Mexicali , and the Wagner Basin , another spreading center which lies under the Gulf of California .
The Imperial Fault Zone is a system of geological faults located in Imperial County in the Southern California region, and adjacent Baja California state in Mexico. It cuts across the border between the United States and Mexico .
1 Baja California Peninsula. 2 Gulf of California Rift Zone (GCRZ) 3 Yucatán. ... List of seismic fault (and systems, zones) in Mexico Baja California Peninsula.
The Brawley Seismic Zone represents the northernmost extension of the spreading center axis associated with the East Pacific Rise which runs up the axis of the Gulf of California and is in the process of rifting the Baja California peninsula away from the mainland of Mexico, with significant subsidence taking place at southern California's Salton Sea and at Laguna Salada in Baja California.
The fault zone continues south before merging with the Bahía Soledad fault off the coast of Baja California. [7] Slip rate along the fault is estimated at 1.2–1.8 mm (0.047–0.071 in) per year, which makes up 25% of Inner Continental Borderlands slip. [4] [3]
A multi-year study published in 2018 suggests a connection between the Elsinore fault and other fault lines farther south, in Mexico: "...observations of the Yuha Desert and Salton Trough suggest that the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor ‐ Cucapah earthquake rupture, the Laguna Salada fault in Baja California, Mexico, and the Elsinore fault in California ...
While the effects of an earthquake on Stanislaus County’s fault lines lessen in the more incorporated parts of the county — like Modesto — the dangers from a large earthquake in the region ...
The Baja California peninsula lies near the boundary of the Pacific plate and the North American plate, while southern Mexico lies just north of the boundary between the North American plate and the Cocos and Rivera tectonic plates. The Cocos plate is subducting under the North American plate at a rate of 67 mm (0.220 ft) per year, while the ...