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Fault Name | State |
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Emigrant Peak fault zone | Nevada |
GEOMETRY | |
Dip (degrees) | 60/40/50 |
Dip direction | W |
Sense of slip | normal |
Rupture top (km) | 0 |
Rupture bottom (km) | 15 |
Rake (degrees) | -90 |
Length (km) | 29 |
MODEL VALUES | |
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Probability of activity | 1 |
Minimum magnitude | 6.5 |
Maximum magnitude | 6.78 |
b-value | 0.8 |
Assigned Dip | Fault-Parallel Slip Rate | Width | Annual Rate | a-value | Branch Weight |
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40 | 1.18 | 23.3 | 1.47e-03 | 2.385 | 0.2 |
50 | 0.99 | 19.6 | 1.03e-03 | 2.233 | 0.6 |
60 | 0.88 | 17.3 | 8.09e-04 | 2.126 | 0.2 |
Comments |
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The slip rate used in 1996 was based on dePolo (1996, written commun.). The assigned slip rate used here is from dePolo (1998) and dePolo and Anderson (2000) and is based on the observed offset reported by Reheis (1991) of 38 m and the inferred age of the offset deposit of 50 ka. |