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San Mateo-San Onofre-Carlsbad fault zone, San Onofre-Oceanside section (Class A) No. 294b
Last Review Date: 2012-01-19
| County(s) and State(s) |
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA |
| Physiographic province(s) |
PACIFIC BORDER |
| Reliability of location |
Compiled at 1:unspecified scale. |
| Length (km) | km. |
| Average strike | |
| Sense of movement | Right lateral |
| Dip Direction | V |
| Historic earthquake | |
| Most recent prehistoric deformation | undifferentiated Quaternary (<1.6 Ma) |
| Slip-rate category | Less than 0.2 mm/yr |
| References |
Clarke, S.H., Greene, H.G, Field, M.E., and Lee, W.H.K., 1983, Reconnaissance geology and geologic hazards of selected areas of the southern California continental borderland: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-62, 78 p. Crouch, J.K., and Suppe, J., 1993, Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Los Angeles basin and inner California borderland—A model for core complex-like crustal extension: Geological Society of America, v. 105, p. 1415–1434. Fischer, P.J., and Mills, G.I., 1991, The offshore Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon fault zone, California—Structure, segmentation and tectonics, in Abbott, P.L., and Elliott, W.J., eds., Environmental perils San Diego region: San Diego, California, San Diego Association of Geologists for the Geological Society of America Meeting, p. 17–36. Greene, H.G., and Kennedy, M.P., 1986, Geology of the inner-southern California continental margin: California Division of Mines and Geology, Geologic Map Series of the California Continental Margin, scale 1:250,000. Normark, W.R., Reid, J.A., Sliter, R.W., Holton, D., Gutmacher, C.E., Fisher, M.A., and Childs, J.R., 1999, Cruise report for O1-99-SC Southern California Earthquake Hazards project: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 99-560, 60 p. Rivero, C., Shaw, J.H., and Mueller, K., 2000, Oceanside and Thirtymile Bank blind thrusts—Implications for earthquake hazards in coastal southern California: Geology, v. 28, p. 891-894. Ryan, H.F., Legg, M.R., Conrad, J.E., and Slitter, R.W., 2009, Recent faulting in the Gulf of Santa Catalina—San Diego to Dana Point, Chapter 4.5, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth science in the urban ocean—The southern California continental borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, p. 291–316, https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/SPE454. USGS, 2005, NAMSS: National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys, http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/NAMSS/ |