scholarly journals Sensitivity of earthquake cycles on the San Andreas fault to small changes in regional compression

Nature ◽  
10.1038/40601 ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 388 (6638) ◽  
pp. 158-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-yuen Wang ◽  
Yongen Cai
Keyword(s):  
San Andreas Fault ◽  
San Andreas ◽  
Earthquake Cycles ◽  
Regional Compression

Earthquake Cycles on the San Andreas Fault System in Northern California

2015 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
M. Burak Yıkılmaz ◽  
Don L. Turcotte ◽  
Olga Beketova ◽  
Louise H. Kellogg ◽  
John B. Rundle
Keyword(s):  
San Andreas Fault ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Northern California ◽  
San Andreas ◽  
San Andreas Fault System ◽  
Earthquake Cycles

scholarly journals Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California

Geosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan A. Castillo ◽  
Sally F. McGill ◽  
Katherine M. Scharer ◽  
Doug Yule ◽  
Devin McPhillips ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
San Andreas Fault ◽  
Recurrence Interval ◽  
Recent Event ◽  
Elapsed Time ◽  
San Andreas ◽  
Clay Deposits ◽  
Palm Springs ◽  
Detailed Record ◽  
Earthquake Cycles

We studied a paleoseismic trench excavated in 2017 across the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault and herein provide the first detailed record of ground-breaking earthquakes on this important fault in Southern California. The trench exposed an ~40-m-wide fault zone cutting through alluvial sand, gravel, silt, and clay deposits. We evaluated the paleoseismic record using a new metric that combines event indicator quality and stratigraphic uncertainty. The most recent paleoearthquake occurred between 950 and 730 calibrated years B.P. (cal yr B.P.), potentially contemporaneous with the last rupture of the San Gorgonio Pass fault zone. We interpret five surface-rupturing earthquakes since 3.3–2.5 ka and eight earthquakes since 7.1–5.7 ka. It is possible that additional events have occurred but were not recognized, especially in the deeper (older) section of the stratigraphy, which was not fully exposed across the fault zone. We calculated an average recurrence interval of 380–640 yr based on four complete earthquake cycles between earthquakes 1 and 5. The average recurrence interval is thus slightly less than the elapsed time since the most recent event on the Banning strand. The average recurrence interval on the Banning strand is thus intermediate between longer intervals published for the San Gorgonio Pass fault zone (~1600 yr) and shorter intervals on both the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas fault (~215 yr) and the Coachella section (~125 yr) of the San Andreas fault.

Shaking in California continues: Magnitude 4.7 strikes the San Andreas Fault south of Hollister

Temblor ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Stein ◽  
◽  
Volkan Sevilgen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
San Andreas Fault ◽  
San Andreas

The San Andreas Fault

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra S. Schulz ◽  
Robert E. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
San Andreas Fault ◽  
San Andreas

Catalog of earthquakes along the San Andreas fault system in Central California for the year 1969

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.H.K. Lee ◽  
J.C. Roller ◽  
P.G. Bauer ◽  
J.D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
San Andreas Fault ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Central California ◽  
San Andreas ◽  
San Andreas Fault System
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