Eastern California Shear Zone

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seismically active region shear zone tectonic zone

The Eastern California Shear Zone is a major tectonic region in eastern California accommodating a significant portion of the Pacific–North America plate motion through a network of active faults and seismic activity.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Eastern California Shear Zone canonical 4
eastern California shear zone 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf seismically active region ⓘ
shear zone ⓘ
tectonic zone ⓘ
accommodates Pacific Plate–North American Plate relative motion ⓘ
accommodatesFractionOfPlateMotion 20–25 percent of Pacific–North America plate motion ⓘ
adjacentTo Pacific Plate ⓘ
characterizedBy active faulting ⓘ
distributed shear ⓘ
frequent earthquakes ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
deformationStyle crustal extension in places ⓘ
strike-slip faulting ⓘ
extendsInto Basin and Range Province ⓘ
Death Valley ⓘ
surface form: Death Valley region

Mojave Desert ⓘ
Owens Valley ⓘ
hasPart Airport Lake fault zone ⓘ
Blackwater fault zone ⓘ
Calico–Hidalgo fault zone ⓘ
Camp Rock fault ⓘ
Death Valley–Furnace Creek fault system ⓘ
Emerson fault ⓘ
Garlock Fault ⓘ
Panamint Valley fault zone ⓘ
surface form: Homestead Valley fault

Hunter Mountain–Saline Valley fault system ⓘ
Johnson Valley fault ⓘ
Lavic Lake fault ⓘ
Lenwood–Lockhart–Old Woman Springs fault zone ⓘ
Little Lake fault zone ⓘ
Owens Valley fault zone ⓘ
Panamint Valley fault zone ⓘ
Pisgah–Bullion–Mesquite Lake fault zone ⓘ
locatedIn California, United States ⓘ
surface form: California

eastern California ⓘ
locatedOn North American Plate ⓘ
motionType right-lateral strike-slip ⓘ
notableEarthquake 1992 Landers earthquake ⓘ
1999 Hector Mine earthquake ⓘ
2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence ⓘ
orientation northwest–southeast trend ⓘ
parallelTo San Andreas Fault ⓘ
surface form: San Andreas Fault system
partOf Pacific–North America plate boundary zone ⓘ
researchField seismology ⓘ
tectonics ⓘ
seismicHazard high ⓘ
sharesPlateMotionWith San Andreas Fault ⓘ
tectonicSetting transform plate boundary ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Garlock Fault → associatedWith → Eastern California Shear Zone ⓘ
2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes → partOf → Eastern California Shear Zone ⓘ
Pacific–North American plate boundary system → hasPart → Eastern California Shear Zone ⓘ
Walker Lane belt → associatedWith → Eastern California Shear Zone ⓘ
Coso volcanic field → tectonicSetting → Eastern California Shear Zone ⓘ
this entity surface form: eastern California shear zone