Silver Creek Fault
The Silver Creek Fault is a potentially
No historic activity of the Silver Creek Fault has been recorded.[3] The City of San José considers the fault to be a rupture hazard only in the foothills but not in the Santa Clara Valley floor. Studies in 2003 and 2004 for the Silicon Valley BART extension, which will cross the fault, found that the northern segment may be as shallow as 100 feet (30 m) deep but found no evidence of surface rupture.[4] A 2017 article suggests that the fault may have effectively become dormant or abandoned roughly 1.5 to 2.5 million years ago.[5]
Research in 2003 suggested that an extension of the Silver Creek Fault may run the entire length of the
See also
- Richter magnitude scale
- Silicon Valley
References
- ^ Definition of the Silver Creek Fault and Evergreen Basin from Active-Source Seismic Reflection Imaging, San Jose, California Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- San Jose Mercury News. Bay Area News Group. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
- ^ Environmental Site Assessment 251 River Oaks Parkway, San Jose, California, Earth Metrics Report 10087, Aug. 3, 1989
- ^ Fitinghoff, Scott E.; Helm, Ron L.; Knutson, Laura C. (October 19, 2010). "Soils, Geology, and Geologic Hazards" (PDF). Envision 2040 San José General Plan Update. City of San José. p. 7.
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- ^ Aerial mapping of the Silver Creek Fault
- ^ Mieszkowski, Katharine (April 30, 2010). "Two Bay Area Faults Do Not Exist". The New York Times. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
Further reading
- Jachens, R.C.; Wentworth, C.M.; Graymer, R.W.; Williams, R.A.; Ponce, D.A.; Mankinen, E.A.; Stephenson, W.J.; Langenheim, V.E. (2017). "The Evergreen basin and the role of the Silver Creek fault in the San Andreas fault system, San Francisco Bay region, California". Geosphere. 13 (2): 269–286. ISSN 1553-040X.
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