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Death Valley Fault Zone
TYPE OF FAULT: right-lateral strike-slip
LENGTH: 115 km -- length of zone; total length of fault segments is roughly 200 km
NEARBY 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 MAGNITUEDES: MW6.5 - 7.3
OTHER NOTES: Unlikely that all segments would rupture simultaneously.
This fault is featured on the following maps:
Basin and Range Fault Map
Mojave Fault Map
