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Simplified fault map of southern California The faults of Southern California viewed to the southeast, as modeled by the Southern California Earthquake Center. Highlighted in purple are the San Andreas Fault (left) and Santa Monica Bay complex (right). The foreground is in the Santa Barbara Channel, the east-trending zone marks the Transverse ...
S. San Andreas Fault; San Cayetano Fault; San Diego Trough Fault Zone; San Felipe Fault Zone; San Gabriel Fault; San Gregorio Fault; San Jacinto Fault Zone
The Newport–Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault Zone. The Newport–Inglewood Fault is a right-lateral strike-slip fault [1] in Southern California.The fault extends for 47 mi (76 km) [1] (110 miles if the Rose Canyon segment is included) from Culver City southeast through Inglewood and other coastal communities to Newport Beach at which point the fault extends east-southeast into the Pacific Ocean.
The San Jacinto Fault Zone and the San Andreas Fault (SAF) accommodate up to 80% of the slip rate between the North American and Pacific plates.The extreme southern portion of the SAF has experienced two moderate events in historical times, while the SJFZ is one of California's most active fault zones and has repeatedly produced both moderate and large events.
A map by the California Geological Survey shows faults near the Lake Almanor area in Plumas County, where a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Thursday, May 11, 2023, followed by a magnitude 5.2 ...
2016 – See Hope Fault M7.8: Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone: 3000: New Zealand: Subduction zone: Active: 2021 Kermadec Islands (M8.1) Kern Canyon Fault: Sierra Nevada, California, United States: Thrust fault: Kunlun fault: 1500: Tibet: Sinistral strike-slip: Active: 2001 Kunlun (M7.8) Kuril–Kamchatka Trench: 2900: From the Kuril Islands to ...
The earthquakes this week were located slightly north of the Ortigalita fault, in an area without any mapped fault lines at the surface, she said. “These earthquakes, of course, occurred some ...
Calaveras Fault creep in downtown Hollister in April 2009. The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault System that is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Activity on the different segments of the fault includes moderate and large earthquakes as well as aseismic creep.