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    The Humboldt Fault or Humboldt Fault Zone, is a normal fault or series of faults, that extends from Nebraska southwestwardly through most of Kansas. Kansas...
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    The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes...
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  • This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...
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  • Ridge, a long anticline structure that is bounded by several faults. The nearby Humboldt Fault Zone in particular poses a threat to the city. Kansas is not...
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    City, Oklahoma. The ridge is associated with the seismically active Humboldt Fault zone. It is also associated with the Proterozoic Midcontinent Rift System...
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    The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state...
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    "high" in the Precambrian basement and is structurally active as the Humboldt Fault. Some fifty miles to the west the southernmost extension of the Proterozoic...
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    Ridge, a long structure bounded by several faults, and which is still active. In particular, the Humboldt Fault Zone lies just 12 miles (19 km) eastward...
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    Humboldt Range is a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is located along the eastern edge of the upper watershed of the Humboldt...
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    Humboldt County (/ˈhʌmboʊlt/ ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 136,463. The county seat...
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    seismologists refer to the active segment as the Mendocino Fault or Mendocino fault zone. The fault section demarcates the boundary between the northwestward-moving...
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    Parks (Del Norte and Humboldt counties) and Humboldt Redwoods State Park, with the overall majority located in the large Humboldt County. The ancient range...
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    Ruby Mountains (category Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest)
    and cirques.[citation needed] Most of the range is included within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The range reaches a maximum elevation of 11,387...
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    exposed. Although Kansas is not widely known as seismically active, the Humboldt fault line associated with the Nemaha Ridge passes through eastern Kansas...
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    The Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3 was a 63 MWe nuclear boiling water reactor, owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company that operated from August 1963...
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  • who named it in association with Humboldt Graben. Graben, of German origin, is a term applied to a rift valley or a fault trough. 71°38′S 12°04′E / 71...
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    Eureka, California (category Cities in Humboldt County, California)
    county seat of Humboldt County, located on the North Coast of California. The city is located on U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt Bay, 270 miles...
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    Jarbidge River, Idaho; 10.0 to 12.5 Ma; Ashfall Fossil Beds eruption. Owyhee-Humboldt volcanic field, Owyhee County, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon; around 12.8 to...
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    Humboldt Cave is an archeological site in Churchill County, Nevada. Thirty-one caches were excavated from the cave, but there is only one radiocarbon date...
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    Pleistocene paleolake Lake Humboldt, of which the many wetlands and the Bogotá River are the present-day remainders. The fault mainly cuts Cretaceous and...
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  • 2022 Ferndale earthquake (category History of Humboldt County, California)
    December 20, 2022, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Ferndale, California in Humboldt County, United States at 10:34:25 UTC, or 2:34 a.m. PST. Much of Northern...
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  • trending-dextral-fault systems: the Pallatanga fault and the Chingual fault. The Pallatanga fault runs close to the epicenter and movement on this fault has been...
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    Cape Mendocino (category Landforms of Humboldt County, California)
    (320 km) north of San Francisco, is located on the Lost Coast entirely within Humboldt County, California, United States. At 124° 24' 34" W longitude, it is the...
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  • Arts and Sciences in 1999. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2012. He married in 1965 and has two daughters...
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    Incline Village Fault, which runs parallel to the Stateline/North Tahoe Fault offshore and into Incline Village. The West Tahoe Fault appears to be the...
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    comprises many small basins. The Great Salt Lake, Pyramid Lake, and the Humboldt Sink are a few of the "drains" in the Great Basin. The Salton Sink is another...
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    extending easterly from False Cape along the False Cape shear zone of the Russ Fault. The river channel through undivided Cretaceous marine formations exposes...
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  • Gay bashing Transphobia) Conscription Reproductive rights Paternal rights and abortion No-fault divorce Sperm theft Reverse sexism Toxic masculinity...
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  • Reader’s Digest Services, 1987. de Terra, Helmut. Humboldt: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt, 1769–1859. New York: Octagon Books, 1979. DeVoto...
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    generally north to south, the Trout Creek Mountains consist primarily of fault blocks of basalt, which came from an ancient volcano and other vents, on...
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