Seismic Faults of California - Brawley Seismic Zone, Calaveras Fault, California Earthquake Forecast, Chino Fault, Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fau (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Brawley Seismic Zone, Calaveras Fault, California earthquake forecast, Chino Fault, Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault, Death Valley Fault Zone, Elsinore Fault Zone, Furnace Creek Fault Zone, Garlock Fault, Hayward Fault Zone, Healdsburg Fault, Honey Lake Fault Zone, Hosgri Fault, Imperial Fault Zone, Kern Canyon Fault, Laguna Salada Fault, Maacama Fault, Mendocino Fracture Zone, Mendocino Triple Junction, Monta Vista Fault, Mount Diablo Thrust Fault, Newport-Inglewood Fault, Pleasanton Fault, Puente Hills Fault, Raymond Fault, Rescue Lineament-Bear Mountains fault zone, Rose Canyon Fault, Santa Maria River Fault, Santa Ynez Fault, San Andreas Fault, San Cayetano Fault, San Gabriel Fault, San Gregorio Fault, San Jacinto Fault Zone, San Joaquin Fault, San Pablo Fault, Seal Cove Fault, Serra Fault, Shoreline Fault, Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Block, Sierra Nevada Fault, Silver Creek Fault, Smartville Block, Southern California faults, Tesla Fault, White Wolf Fault, Whittier Fault, Yorba Linda Fault. Excerpt: The Hayward Fault Zone is a geologic fault zone capable of generating significantly destructive earthquakes. This fault is about 74 mi (119 km) long, situated mainly along the western base of the hills on the east side of San Francisco Bay. It runs through densely-populated areas, including the cities of Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont, and San Jose. The Hayward Fault is parallel to its more famous (and much longer) westerly neighbor, the San Andreas Fault, which lies offshore and through the San Francisco peninsula. To the east of the Hayward lies the Calaveras Fault. In 2007 the Hayward Fault was discovered to merge with the Calaveras Fault east of San Jose at a depth of four miles, with the potential of creating earthquakes much larger than previously expected. Some geologists have suggested that the Southern Calaveras should be renamed as the Southern Hayward. North of San Pablo Bay, and somewhat offset from the Hayward Fault is the Rodgers Creek Fault, considered by many to be an extension of the Hayward Fault Zone. Another fault further north, the Maacama Fault, is also considered to be part of the "Hayward Fault subsystem." While the San Andreas Fault is the principal transform boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, the Hayward Fault takes up a share of the overall motion between the plates. Main articles: Seafloor spreading, Subduction, Plate tectonics, Geologic fault, Earthquake Plate motions of the eastern North Pacific-North America region. The San Francisco Bay Area is in the middle of the diagonal green segment (showing slip-strike movement) near the center of the image. Red arrows indicate movement rates relative to the North American plateThe Pacific Plate is a major section of the Earth's crust, gradually expanding by the eruption of magma along the East Pacific Rise to the southeast. It is also being subducted far to the northwest into the Aleutian Trench and also in a northerly direct