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  Gravel Hills - Harper Fault Zone

TYPE OF FAULTING: right-lateral strike-slip
LENGTH: about 50 km (length of zone);
total length of all fault segments is greater than 70 km
NEAREST COMMUNITIES: Barstow, Johannesburg
LAST MAJOR SURFACE RUPTURE: Holocene
SLIP RATE: 0.9 mm/yr
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: 3500 years (?)
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW 6.5 - 7.2
OTHER NOTES: roughly continuous with the Harper Lake fault

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This fault is featured on the following map:

MOJAVE FAULT MAP