TYPE OF FAULTING: right-lateral strike-slip
LENGTH: 115 km -- length of zone;
total length of fault segments is roughly 200 km
NEAREST COMMUNITY: Death Valley
MOST RECENT SURFACE RUPTURE: Holocene
SLIP RATE: roughly 3 mm/yr at south end; considerably less (0.1 mm/yr (?) at north end
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: roughly 1000 years (?)
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.5 - 7.3
OTHER NOTES: Unlikely that all segments would rupture simultaneously.
REFERENCES
This fault is featured on the following maps:
Basin and Range Fault Map MAP