White Wolf Fault

White Wolf Fault

The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and north of the Tehachapi Mountains. It is classed as a reverse (vertical motion) fault with a left lateral (sinistral) component. The White Wolf fault was the source of the July 21, 1952 Kern County earthquake (M=7.3), the second largest earthquake in California during the 20th century.

External links

* [http://quake.usgs.gov/info/faultmaps/fault277.html A map of the White Wolf fault]
* [http://www.data.scec.org/chrono_index/kerncoun.html Southern California Earthquake Center description of the Kern County Earthquake]
* [http://www.scec.org/education/020721kern.html Kern County Earthquake 50th Anniversary]

References

* Steinbrugge, Karl V., and 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, Vol. 44, No. 2B, pp. 201-462.

* Stein. R. S. (1981) 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, Vol. 86, No. NB6, pp. 4913-4928.

* Dreger D., Savage B. (1999) Aftershocks of the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake sequence, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 1094-1108.

* Bawden, G. W. (2001) Source parameters for the 1952 Kern County earthquake, California: A joint inversion of leveling and triangulation observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 106, No. B1, pp. 771-785.


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