TYPE OF FAULT: right-lateral strike-slip
LENGTH: about 35 km
NEAREST COMMUNITIES: Newberry Springs, Barstow
LAST MAJOR RUPTURE: June 28, 1992; MW 7.3
SLIP RATE: 1 mm/yr
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: roughly 4,000 years (?)
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW 6.0 - 6.8;
up to magnitude 7.5 possible if combined with nearby faults
OTHER NOTES: The Camp Rock, Emerson, and Copper Mountain faults make up a roughly continuous fault system some 100 km in length. About 20 km of the Camp Rock fault ruptured in the Landers earthquake of 1992.
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This fault is featured on the following map: