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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 ...
2000 Yountville, 2014 South Napa: Wairarapa Fault >100: North Island, New Zealand: Dextral strike-slip: Active: 1855 Wairarapa (M8.2) Wairau Fault: 180: South Island, New Zealand: Dextral strike-slip: Active: White Wolf Fault: San Joaquin Valley, California, United States: Oblique-reverse (sinstral) Active: 1952 Kern County (M7.5) Whittier ...
The Little River Fault (see the QFFDB, Fault 556) is representative of an extensive zone of faults along the north side of the Olympic Peninsula and in the Strait of Juan de Fuca (likely connected with the fault systems at the south end of Vancouver Island, see fault database map), but these lie west of the crustal blocks that underlie the ...
The Cascadia subduction zone is a 960 km (600 mi) fault at a convergent plate boundary, about 100–200 km (70–100 mi) off the Pacific coast, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States.
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 ...
A full fault rupture, estimated to be around a 7.5 magnitude, could kill between 3,000 and 18,000 people, according to US Geological Survey and Southern California Earthquake Center.
The next segment of fault runs narrow and straight for a distance of 100–150 km (62–93 mi) while roughly parallel to the coast. [7] 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 ...
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.