White Wolf Fault

The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located along the northwestern transition of the Tejon Hills and Tehachapi Mountains with the San Joaquin Valley. It is north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and roughly parallel with the latter. It is classed as a reverse (vertical motion) fault with a left lateral (sinistral) component.^[1]

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The White Wolf Fault was the source of the 1952 Kern County earthquake on July 21 (M=7.3).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ Ross, Donald C. (1986). "Basement-Rock Correlations Across the White Wolf-Breckenridge-Southern Kern Canyon Fault Zone, Southern Sierra Nevada, California" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1651. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2024 – via USGS Publications Warehouse.
^ Stein, Ross S.; Thatcher, Wayne (1981-06-10). "Seismic and aseismic deformation associated with the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake and relationship to the Quaternary history of the White Wolf Fault". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 86 (B6): 4913–4928. Bibcode:1981JGR....86.4913S. doi:10.1029/JB086iB06p04913. ISSN 0148-0227 – via Wiley Online Library.
^ Bawden, Gerald W. (2001-01-10). "Source parameters for the 1952 Kern County earthquake, California: A joint inversion of leveling and triangulation observations". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 106 (B1): 771–785. Bibcode:2001JGR...106..771B. doi:10.1029/2000JB900315. ISSN 0148-0227.
^ Steinbrugge, Karl V.; Moran, Donald F. (1954). "An engineering study of the southern California earthquake of July 21, 1952 and its aftershocks". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 44 (2B): 201–462. Bibcode:1954BuSSA..44..201S. doi:10.1785/BSSA04402B0201.
^ Dreger, D.; Savage, B. (1999). "Aftershocks of the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake sequence". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 89 (4): 1094–1108. Bibcode:1999BuSSA..89.1094D. doi:10.1785/BSSA0890041094.

External links

Kern County Earthquake – Southern California Earthquake Center

35°15′04″N 118°40′02″W / 35.2510°N 118.6671°W / 35.2510; -118.6671

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[1] Ross, Donald C. (1986). "Basement-Rock Correlations Across the White Wolf-Breckenridge-Southern Kern Canyon Fault Zone, Southern Sierra Nevada, California" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1651. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2024 – via USGS Publications Warehouse.

[2] Stein, Ross S.; Thatcher, Wayne (1981-06-10). "Seismic and aseismic deformation associated with the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake and relationship to the Quaternary history of the White Wolf Fault". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 86 (B6): 4913–4928. Bibcode:1981JGR....86.4913S. doi:10.1029/JB086iB06p04913. ISSN 0148-0227 – via Wiley Online Library.

[3] Bawden, Gerald W. (2001-01-10). "Source parameters for the 1952 Kern County earthquake, California: A joint inversion of leveling and triangulation observations". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 106 (B1): 771–785. Bibcode:2001JGR...106..771B. doi:10.1029/2000JB900315. ISSN 0148-0227.

[4] Steinbrugge, Karl V.; Moran, Donald F. (1954). "An engineering study of the southern California earthquake of July 21, 1952 and its aftershocks". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 44 (2B): 201–462. Bibcode:1954BuSSA..44..201S. doi:10.1785/BSSA04402B0201.

[5] Dreger, D.; Savage, B. (1999). "Aftershocks of the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake sequence". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 89 (4): 1094–1108. Bibcode:1999BuSSA..89.1094D. doi:10.1785/BSSA0890041094.

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v t e Seismically active fault zones and tectonic blocks of California
Statewide Faults	San Andreas Fault Salinian Block
Southern California	Brawley Seismic Zone Chino Fault Elsinore Fault Zone Elysian Park Fault Garlock Fault Hollywood fault Hosgri Fault Imperial Fault Zone Laguna Salada Fault Newport–Inglewood Fault Northridge Blind Thrust Fault Peninsular Ranges Puente Hills Fault Raymond Fault Rose Canyon Fault Salton Trough San Cayetano Fault San Diego Trough Fault Zone San Felipe Fault Zone San Gabriel Fault San Jacinto Fault Zone Santa Maria River Fault Santa Ynez Fault Shoreline Fault Sierra Madre Fault Zone Ventura Fault White Wolf Fault Whittier Fault Yorba Linda Fault
Northern California	Bartlett Springs Fault Calaveras Fault Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault Concord Fault Hayward Fault Zone Healdsburg Fault Maacama Fault Mendocino Fracture Zone Mendocino Triple Junction Mount Diablo Thrust Fault Monta Vista Fault Nacimiento Fault Pleasanton Fault Rinconada Fault San Gregorio Fault San Pablo Fault Seal Cove Fault Serra Fault Silver Creek Fault Tesla Fault West Napa Fault
Sierra Nevada	Death Valley Fault Zone Furnace Creek Fault Zone Honey Lake Fault Zone Kern Canyon Fault Maria fold and thrust belt Owens Valley Fault Rescue Lineament-Bear Mountains fault zone Sierra Nevada Batholith Sierra Nevada Fault Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Block Smartville Block Walker Lane
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