| Abstract: | The M6.2 Elmore Desert Ranch earthquake of 24 November 1987 was associated spatially and probably temporally with left-lateral surface rupture on many northeast-trending faults in and near the Superstition Hills in western Imperial Valley. Three curving discontinuous principal zones of rupture among these breaks extended northeastward from near the Superstition Hills fault zone as far as 9km; the maximum observed surface slip, 12.5cm, was on the northern of the three, the Elmore Ranch fault, at a point near the epicenter. Twelve hours after the Elmore Ranch earthquake, the M6.6 Superstition Hills earthquake occurred near the northwest end of the right-lateral Superstition Hills fault zone. We measured displacements over 339 days at as many as 296 sites along the Superstition Hills fault zone, and repeated measurements at 49 sites provided sufficient data to fit with a simple power law. The overall distributions of right-lateral displacement at 1 day and the estimated final slip are nearly symmetrical about the midpoint of the surface rupture. The average estimated final right-lateral slip for the Superstition Hills fault zone is ~54cm. The average left-lateral slip for the conjugate faults trending northeastward is ~23cm. The southernmost ruptured member of the Superstition Hills fault zone, newly named the Wienert fault, extends the known length of the zone by about 4km. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Sharp, R. V. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Bulletin - Seismological Society of America |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Surface faulting along the Superstition Hills fault zone and nearby faults associated with the earthquakes of 24 November 1987; 1989; Article; Journal; Bulletin - Seismological Society of America; Sharp, R. V. |
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| Citation Volume: | 79 |
| Citation Year: | 1989 |
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| Text: | Surface faulting along the Superstition Hills fault zone and nearby faults associated with the earthquakes of 24 November 1987; 1989; Article; Journal; Bulletin - Seismological Society of America; Sharp, R. V. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1989 00:00 -0600 |
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