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.

Activity

The White Wolf Fault was the source of the 1952 Kern County earthquake on July 21 (M=7.3), the second largest earthquake in California during the 20th century.

See also

• 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake — 7.9 magnitude earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in the Tehachapi Mountains.
• Seismic faults of California

References

• Steinbrugge, Karl V., and 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, Vol. 44, No. 2B, pp. 201–462.
• Stein. R. S. (1981) 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, Vol. 86, No. NB6, pp. 4913–4928.
• Dreger D., Savage B. (1999) Aftershocks of the 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake sequence, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 1094–1108.
• Bawden, G. W. (2001) Source parameters for the 1952 Kern County earthquake, California: A joint inversion of leveling and triangulation observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 106, No. B1, pp. 771–785.

External links

• A map of the White Wolf fault at US Geological Survey
• Southern California Earthquake Center description of the Kern County Earthquake
• Kern County Earthquake 50th Anniversary