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    River Valley Cerro Prieto volcano The Imperial Fault Zone is a system of geological faults located in Imperial County in the Southern California region...
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    earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone could trigger a rupture along the San Andreas Fault. In the south, the fault terminates near Bombay Beach, California...
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  • every notable fault, but only major fault zones.[clarification needed] Lists of earthquakes Tectonics Yeats, R. (2012), Active Faults of the World, Cambridge...
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    The San Jacinto Fault Zone (SJFZ) is a major strike-slip fault zone that runs through San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial Counties in Southern...
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  • strike-slip faults along its edges. It is a component of the much bigger San Andreas Fault System, joining the San Andreas Fault with the Imperial Fault Zone via...
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    faults are indicated with a (#) symbol. Brawley Seismic Zone Chino Fault Elsinore Fault Zone Elysian Park Fault Garlock Fault Hosgri Fault Imperial Fault...
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  • south: Imperial Fault Zone Cerro Prieto Fault Ballenas Fault Partida Fault San Lorenzo Fault Guaymas Fault Carmen Fault Farallon Fault Atl Fault Pescadero...
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  • volcano The Brawley Seismic Zone (BSZ), also known as the Brawley fault zone, is a predominantly extensional tectonic zone that connects the southern terminus...
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  • south Imperial Fault El Indiviso Fault Cerro Prieto Fault Laguna Salada Fault Ballenas Fault Partida Fault San Lorenzo Fault Guaymas Fault Carmen Fault Farallon...
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    Salton Sink (category Geography of Imperial County, California)
    of the basin and connects the San Andreas Fault system with the Imperial Fault Zone to the south. The Salton Buttes are rhyolite lava domes within the...
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    Salton Sea (category Imperial Valley)
    lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough...
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    Salton Trough (category Geology of Imperial County, California)
    active spreading center that connects the San Andreas Fault system with the Imperial Fault Zone to the south. The Salton Trough is also referred to as...
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    The San Felipe Fault Zone (also known as the Agua Caliente or Murrieta Hot Springs Fault zone) is an active Quaternary fault zone made up of continuous...
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  • San Andreas fault system. The earthquake was caused by rupture along parts of the Imperial Fault, the Brawley fault zone and the Rico Fault, a previously...
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  • 1940 El Centro earthquake (category Imperial Valley)
    the trough and the Imperial Fault to the east. The Imperial Fault is linked to the San Andreas Fault through the Brawley seismic zone, which is a spreading...
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    Laguna Salada Fault is a geological fault between the United States and Mexico. About 64–80 kilometers (40–50 mi) long, it straddles the Imperial County-California–Baja...
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    2010 Baja California earthquake (category History of Imperial County, California)
    in more than 300 years. The region also includes other faults, including the Imperial Fault Zone. In the early morning hours of April 10, 2010, an aftershock...
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  • centres and at strike-slip systems parallel to oblique subduction zones. Strike-slip faults have a direct effect on magmatism. They can either induce magmatism...
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    Coyote Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Imperial County, California)
    the Elsinore Fault Zone, the Imperial Fault Zone, and the San Jacinto Fault Zone, as well as a complex system of interconnecting faults. These major right...
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  • mountain range in Mono County, California Brawley Seismic Zone, at the south end of the San Andreas Fault Brawley (surname) Brawley Municipal Airport, public...
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  • 1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes (category History of Imperial County, California)
    US$600 thousand. The Imperial Valley is a seismically active area in California where the San Andreas Fault and San Jacinto Fault Zone (SJFZ) discontinues...
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    subduction zones. The longest earthquake ruptures on strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault (1857, 1906), the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey (1939)...
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  • Zone is a 2010 British action thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and written by Brian Helgeland, based on the 2006 non-fiction book Imperial Life...
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    Imperial is a city in Imperial County, California, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of El Centro. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 14,758. It...
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  • 1968 Borrego Mountain earthquake (category Imperial Valley)
    subparallel faults. The SAF terminates at the Salton Trough, a transtensional zone (pull-apart basin) that separates it from the Imperial Fault in the south...
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    transform faults, beginning with the Brawley Seismic Zone in the Imperial Valley. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Andreas system of faults spans offshore...
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    The Imperial Valley (Spanish: Valle de Imperial or Valle Imperial) of Southern California lies in Imperial and Riverside counties, with an urban area centered...
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    Salton City, California (category Census-designated places in Imperial County, California)
    fractured fault lines that run through Imperial County. Salton City is also mere miles from major, destructive fault lines, such as the Imperial Fault, the...
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    Weinan faults, some higher than 8 m (26 ft), were produced by the 1556 earthquake. The fault zone is located northeast of Xi'an. This normal fault generally...
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  • Harold, The relation of the southern San Jacinto fault zone to the Imperial and Cerro Prieto faults in Contributions to Crustal Evolution of the Southwestern...
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