Fault Name |
State |
Great Salt Lake fault zone, Promontory section |
Utah |
Comments |
Preferred vertical slip rate is consensus value reported by Lund (2004) based on original investigation by Dinter and Pechmann (2000). Dip of fault changed to 50? based on redefined regional default value (Lund, 2006). |
Selected References |
Dinter, D.A., and Pechmann, J.C., 2000, Late Quaternary slip rates and recurrence intervals of large earthquakes on the East Great Salt fault, Utah—Estimates from high-resolution seismic reflection data: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 2000 Annual Meeting, v. 32. Lund, W.R., 2005, Consensus preferred recurrence interval and vertical slip rate estimates—Review of Utah paleoseismic-trenching data by the Utah Quaternary Fault Parameters Working Group: Utah Geological Survey Bulletin 134, compact disk. Dinter, D.A., and Pechmann, J.C., 2000, Paleoseismology of the East Great Salt Lake fault: U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Annual Summary, v. 42, USGS External Grant award no. 98HQGR1013, 6 p. Available at http://erp-web.er.usgs.gov/reports/annsum/vol42/ni/ni_vol42.htm. Lund, W.R., ed., 2006, Basin and Range Province Earthquake Working Group seismic-hazard recommendations to the U.S. Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Mapping Program: Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report 477, 23 p, ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/open_file_reports/OFR-477.pdf.
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