Rose Canyon Fault
Rose Canyon Fault | ||
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Rose Canyon Fault Zone, Newport Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault Zone, Newport Inglewood-Rose Canyon-Vallecitos-San Miguel Fault Zone, Newport Inglewood-Rose Canyon-Descanso-Agua Blanca Fault Zone | ||
Earthquakes 1862 San Diego earthquake | | |
Type | Right-lateral strike-slip |
The Rose Canyon Fault is a right-lateral
Tectonic setting
Fault characteristics
The right-lateral
Southern terminus
The southern terminus of the Rose Canyon Fault Zone has not been conclusively determined, and is considered to connect to the Descanso and Agua Blanca Faults and/or the San Miguel–Vallecitos Fault Zone.[10][11] Researchers have suggested that both of these faults may transfer slip to the Rose Canyon Fault via San Diego Bay step overs, however no clear connection has been determined.[12] Around the San Diego Bay, the fault splays out into many different strands, such as the Silver Strand and Spanish Bight faults.[13][14] Some of these splay faults come very close to the Descanso Fault, which in turn links with the Agua Blanca Fault. This leads certain researchers to consider these faults interconnected as one major fault zone, the Newport Inglewood–Rose Canyon–Descanso–Agua Blanca Fault Zone.[10][15][16] Others favor an interpretation which links the Rose Canyon to the San Miguel-Vallecitos Fault Zone, though again, there are no visible faults connecting the two.[12] Other researchers attempting to determine which of the two faults the Rose Canyon connects to in the south provide evidence for both faults having a potential link.[17][18][19]
Seismic activity
The Rose Canyon Fault has little associated historic seismicity, however a magnitude 6–6.5 earthquake in 1862 is often attributed to it.
Future hazard
The Rose Canyon Fault Zone can produce large earthquakes which can be very destructive due to its proximity to major population centers in
Notes
References
- ^ a b Bormann & Kent, p. 2.
- ^ Liu, Wang & Li 2010, p. 1.
- ^ Maloney et al., p. 6.
- ^ a b "Rose Canyon Fault Zone". Southern California Earthquake Center. Southern California Earthquake Center. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ Rockwell 2010, p. 9.
- ^ Roquemore 1997.
- ^ Lindvall & Rockwell 1995, p. 10.
- ^ a b c Sahakian et al. 2017.
- ^ Rockwell & Singleton 2018, p. 2.
- ^ a b SONGS 2012, p. 2.
- ^ Abbott & Elliott 1979, p. 29.
- ^ a b Maloney et al., p. 7.
- ^ Rockwell & Singleton 2018, p. 4.
- ^ Lindvall & Rockwell 1995, p. 1.
- ^ Rockwell & Singleton 2018, p. 3-4.
- ^ Grant & Rockwell 2002.
- ^ Abbott & Elliott 1979, p. 41.
- ^ Anderson, Rockwell & Agnew 1989, p. 10.
- ^ Roquemore 1997, p. 12.
- ^ De Wyze 2000, p. 6.
- ^ Roquemore 1997, p. 8.
- ^ Lindvall & Rockwell 1995, p. 9.
- ^ a b De Wyze 2000, p. 5.
- ^ Lin II 2020.
- ^ EERI 2020, p. 34.
Sources
- Abbott, Patrick L.; Elliott, William J. (November 1979). "Faulting offshore San Diego and northern Baja California". In Legg, Mark R.; Kennedy, Michael P. (eds.). Earthquakes and other perils—San Diego region (PDF). San Diego Association of Geologists Guidebook. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- Anderson, John G.; Rockwell, Thomas K.; Agnew, Duncan Carr (May 1989). "Past and Possible Future Earthquakes of Significance to the San Diego Region". Earthquake Spectra. 5 (2): 299–335. . Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- Bormann, Jayne; Kent, Graham. Investigating recent deformation along the southern San Pedro Basin fault to assess evidence for connectivity between the San Pedro Basin and San Diego Trough fault systems (PDF) (Report). U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- De Wyze, Jeannete (2 March 2000). "Earthquake San Diego Danger Zones" (PDF). San Diego Reader. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- EERI (2020). San Diego Earthquake Planning Scenario (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- Grant, Lisa B.; Rockwell, Thomas K. (2002). "A Northward-propagating Earthquake Sequence in Coastal Southern California?". Seismological Research Letters. 73 (4). . Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- Lin II, Rong-Gong (4 March 2020). "San Diego faces critical earthquake danger from fault long believed to be inactive". LA Times. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- Lindvall, Scott C.; Rockwell, Thomas K. (10 December 1995). "Holocene activity of the Rose Canyon fault zone in San Diego, California". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 100 (B12): 24121–24132. . Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- Liu, Mian; Wang, Hui; Li, Qingsong (7 July 2010). "Inception of the eastern California shear zone and evolution of the Pacific-North American plate boundary: From kinematics to geodynamics". Journal of Geophysical Research. 115 (B7). . Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- Maloney, Jillian M.; Legg, Mark; Nicholson, Craig; Rockwell, Thomas K. "White Paper: The California continental borderland" (PDF). Southern California Earthquake Center. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- Rockwell, Thomas K.; Singleton, Drake (April 2018). Mid to Late Holocene Rupture History of the Rose Canyon Fault in San Diego, California (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- Rockwell, Thomas K. (28 May 2010). The Rose Canyon Fault Zone in San Diego. International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- Roquemore, Glenn (1 April 1997). The Seismic Risk in the San Diego Region: Special Focus on the Rose Canyon Fault Systems: Workshop Proceedings. DIANE Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7881-4262-8.
- Sahakian, Valerie; Bormann, Jayne; Driscoll, Neal; Harding, Alistair; Kent, Graham; Wesnousky, Steve (7 March 2017). "Seismic constraints on the architecture of the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault: Implications for the length and magnitude of future earthquake ruptures". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 122: 2085–2105. . Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- SONGS (December 2012). Paleoseismic Assessment of the Late Holocene Rupture History of the Rose Canyon Fault in San Diego (PDF) (Report). San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
Further reading
- Kennedy, Michael P. (1975). Geology of the San Diego metropolitan area, California. California Division of Mines and Geology.