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| x Calaveras Fault |
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Alum Rock, CA USA 2007 earthquake |
The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. It runs east of the San Andreas, diverging from it in the vicinity of Hollister, California, and is responsible for the...
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| x Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenvile Fault |
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The Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault is located in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is part of the somewhat parallel system of faults that are secondary to the San Andreas Fault. The 5.8 magnitude 1980 Livermore earthquake...
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| x San Andreas Fault |
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1,300 km | 1906 San Francisco earthquake | California |
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States. The fault's motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal motion). It forms the tectonic boundary...
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| x Hayward Fault Zone |
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The Hayward Fault Zone is a geologic fault zone capable of generating significantly destructive earthquakes. About 60 kilometers long, it lies mainly along the western base of the hills on the east side of San Francisco Bay. It runs through densely...
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| x Garlock Fault |
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The Garlock Fault is a left-lateral strike-slip fault line running approximately northeast-southwest in southern California. It runs for much of its length along the southern base of the Tehachapi Mountains. It marks the northern boundary of the...
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| x Tesla Fault |
The Tesla Fault is a seismically active geological structure associated with the Diablo Range in the vicinity of the Livermore Valley in California. This fault has been demonstrated to have a dextral offset of 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) and is closely...
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| x San Gabriel Fault |
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The San Gabriel Fault is a geological fault that forms the boundary of the southern portion of the San Gabriel Mountains and running about 87 miles (140 kilometers). The fault is a right-lateral strike-slip that was last active 1,000s of years ago ...
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| x Newport-Inglewood Fault |
The Newport-Inglewood Fault is a right-lateral fault in Southern California. The fault extends for 75 kilometers (46 miles) from Culver City southeast to Newport Beach at which point it runs out into the Pacific Ocean. The fault can be seen on the...
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| x Elsinore Fault Zone |
The Elsinore Fault Zone is a large geological fault structure in Southern California.
It runs from the mountainous region between El Centro and San Diego, northwest to Chino Hills. On the southern end of the fault zone is the southeastern extension...
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| x Raymond Fault |
The Raymond Fault is a fault in Southern California. It branches from the San Andreas Fault In the San Gabriel Mountains where it forms the fork of the San Gabriel River. It forms the wall of Monrovia canyon. The fault is very straight and follows...
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| x Silver Creek Fault |
The Silver Creek Fault is a potentially seismically active northwest-southeast trending geological structure in Santa Clara County, California. The Silver Creek Fault runs through and adjacent to the 25 miles (40 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide...
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| x Serra Fault |
The Serra Fault is the northernmost fault in a zone of northwest-striking range front thrust faults adjacent to and northeast of the San Francisco Peninsula segment of the San Andreas Fault (Kennedy, 2005). The Serra Fault is positioned...
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| x Healdsburg Fault |
The Healdsburg Fault is a seismically active geological feature associated with the Santa Rosa Plain and the Alexander Valley, in Sonoma County, California, USA. The eastern sides of these floodplains are bounded by strike-slip or transform faults....
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| x Whittier Fault |
The Whittier Fault is a geologic fault that is a branch of the Elsinore Fault Zone in southern California, U.S.A. It is a 40-kilometer (25 mi) right-lateral strike-slip fault that runs between the cities of Chino Hills and Whittier. The fault has a...
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| x Mendocino Fracture Zone |
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The Mendocino Fracture Zone is a fracture zone and transform boundary off the coast of Cape Mendocino in far northern California. It runs westward from a triple junction with the San Andreas Fault and the Cascadia subduction zone to the southern end...
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| x White Wolf Fault |
The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and north of the Tehachapi Mountains. It is classed as a reverse (vertical motion) fault with a left lateral ...
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