White Wolf Fault

The White Wolf Fault (in red), Southern California

The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located along the northwestern transition of the Tejon Hills and Tehachapi Mountains with the San Joaquin Valley. It is north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and roughly parallel with the latter. It is classed as a reverse (vertical motion) fault with a left lateral (sinistral) component.[1]

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The White Wolf Fault was the source of the 1952 Kern County earthquake on July 21 (M=7.3).[2][3][4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ross, Donald C. (1986). "Basement-Rock Correlations Across the White Wolf-Breckenridge-Southern Kern Canyon Fault Zone, Southern Sierra Nevada, California" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1651. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2024 – via USGS Publications Warehouse.
  2. ^ Stein, Ross S.; Thatcher, Wayne (1981-06-10). "Seismic and aseismic deformation associated with the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake and relationship to the Quaternary history of the White Wolf Fault". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 86 (B6): 4913–4928. Bibcode:1981JGR....86.4913S. doi:10.1029/JB086iB06p04913. ISSN 0148-0227 – via Wiley Online Library.
  3. ^ Bawden, Gerald W. (2001-01-10). "Source parameters for the 1952 Kern County earthquake, California: A joint inversion of leveling and triangulation observations". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 106 (B1): 771–785. Bibcode:2001JGR...106..771B. doi:10.1029/2000JB900315. ISSN 0148-0227.
  4. ^ Steinbrugge, Karl V.; Moran, Donald F. (1954). "An engineering study of the southern California earthquake of July 21, 1952 and its aftershocks". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 44 (2B): 201–462. Bibcode:1954BuSSA..44..201S. doi:10.1785/BSSA04402B0201.
  5. ^ Dreger, D.; Savage, B. (1999). "Aftershocks of the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake sequence". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 89 (4): 1094–1108. Bibcode:1999BuSSA..89.1094D. doi:10.1785/BSSA0890041094.

35°15′04″N 118°40′02″W / 35.2510°N 118.6671°W / 35.2510; -118.6671


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