Archived report (descriptions no longer maintained)
Calaveras fault zone, Northern Calaveras section (Class A) No. 54a
Last Review Date: 1999-03-04
Compiled in cooperation with the California Geological Survey
| County(s) and State(s) |
ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA |
| Physiographic province(s) |
PACIFIC BORDER |
| Reliability of location |
Good Compiled at 1:24,000 scale. |
| Length (km) | This section is 43 km of a total fault length of 156 km. |
| Average strike | N26°W (for section) |
| Sense of movement | Right lateral |
| Dip Direction | V |
| Historic earthquake | |
| Most recent prehistoric deformation | latest Quaternary (<15 ka) |
| Slip-rate category | Greater than 5.0 mm/yr |
| References |
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Galehouse, J.S., 1999, Theodolite measurement of creep rates on San Francisco Bay region faults: U.S. Geological Survey, Summaries of National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, v. 40, USGS Contract 99-HQ-GR-0084 (electronic version available on line at http://erp-web.er.usgs.gov). Harms, K.K., Clark, M.M., Rymer, M.J., Bonilla, M.G., Harp, E.L., Herd, D.G., Lajoie, K.R., Lienkaemper, J.J., Mathieson, S.A., Perkins, J.A., Wallace, R.E., and Ziony, J.I., 1984, The April 24, 1984 Morgan Hill, California, earthquake: The search for surface faulting, in Bennett, J.H., and Sherburne, R.W., eds., The 1984 Morgan Hill, California earthquake: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Publication 68, p. 149-160. Harsh, P.W., and Burford, R.O., 1982, Alignment-array measurements of fault slip in the eastern San Francisco Bay area, California, in Hart, E.W., Hirschfeld, S.E., and Schulz, S.S., eds., Proceedings Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Publication 62, p. 251-260. Hart, E.W., 1979, Hayward, Mission, and Calaveras faults, Niles quadrangle: California Division of Mines and Geology Fault Evaluation Report FER-88, microfiche copy in California Division of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 90-11, scale 1:24,000. Hart, E.W., 1980, Calaveras and Verona faults, Dublin quadrangle, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Fault Evaluation Report FER-1081 microfiche copy in Division of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 90-11, scale 1:24,000. Hart, E.W., 1981, Evidence for recent faulting, Calaveras and Pleasanton faults, Diablo and Dublin quadrangles, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 81-9SF, scale 1:24,000. Hart, E.W., 1984, Evidence for surface faulting associated with the Morgan Hill, earthquake of April 24, 1981, in Bennett, J.H., and Sherburne, R.W., eds., The 1984 Morgan Hill, California earthquake: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Publication 68, p. 161-173. Herd, D.G., 1977, Map of Quaternary faulting along the Hayward and Calaveras fault zones, Niles and Milpitas 7.5-minute quadrangles, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Map 77-645, scale 1:24,000. Herd, D.G., 1978, Map of Quaternary faulting along the northern Hayward fault zone; Mare Island, Richmond, Briones Valley, Oakland West, Oakland East, San Leandro, Hayward, and Newark 7.5-minute quadrangles, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Map 77-308, scale 1:24,000. Jennings, C.W., 1994, Fault activity map of California and adjacent areas, with locations of recent volcanic eruptions: California Division of Mines and Geology Geologic Data Map 6, 92 p., 2 pls., scale 1:750,000. Kelson, K.I., Baldwin, J.N., and Randolph, C.E., 1998, Late Holocene slip rate and amounts of coseismic rupture along the Central Calaveras fault, San Francisco Bay Area, California: Technical report to U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Final Technical Report, Reston, Virginia, under Contract 1434-HQ-97-GR-03151, 26 p. Kelson, K.I., Simpson, G.D., Lettis, W.R., and Haraden, C.C., 1996, Holocene slip rate and earthquake recurrence of the northern Calaveras fault at Leyden Creek, northern California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, no. B3, p. 5961-5975. Lawson, A.C., chairman, 1908, The California earthquake of April 18, 1906—Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission: Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 87. Oppenheimer, D.H., and MacGregor-Scott, N., 1992, The seismotectonics of the Eastern San Francisco Bay region, in Borchardt, G., and others, eds., Proceedings of the Second Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area: California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology Special Publication 113, p. 11-16. Page, B.M., 1982, The Calaveras fault zone of California—An active pl. boundary element, in Hart, E.W., Hirschfeld, S.E., and Schulz, S.S., eds., Proceedings of Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area: California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology Special Publication 62, p. 175-184. Perkins, J.A., and Sims, J.D., 1988, Late Quaternary slip along the Calaveras fault near Hollister, California: Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 69, no. 44, p. 1420. |