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  Pisgah Fault

TYPE OF FAULTING: right-lateral strike-slip
LENGTH: 34 km
MOST RECENT SURFACE RUPTURE: Holocene;
experienced triggered slip in 1992, due to the shaking of the Landers earthquake
SLIP RATE: 0.8 mm/yr
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: uncertain
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.0 - 7.0, alone;
may also rupture in series with the Bullion fault to the south

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This fault is featured on the following map:

MOJAVE FAULT MAP