TYPE OF FAULTING: right-lateral strike-slip
LENGTH: about 7 km
NEAREST COMMUNITIES: none within 20 km
LAST SURFACE RUPTURES: May 31, 1975,
June 28, 1992,
SLIP RATE: 0.5 mm/yr or less (?)
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: 2000 years (?)
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: ML 5.0 - 6.0
OTHER NOTES: Data given above is for rupture of Galway Lake Fault alone.
Unknown until its first historic rupture
in 1975, the Galway Lake
fault is connected at its southern end to the
Emerson fault, and has shown in recent years
its ability to rupture separately or in concert with other faults,
as during the Landers
earthquake of 1992. It has been suggested that the Galway Lake
fault and other smaller faults first noticed after the Landers quake
may represent a connecting fault zone in formation, to ultimately
link the
Emerson-Camp Rock
fault system with the Calico and West Calico faults.
REFERENCES
This fault is featured on the following map:
MOJAVE FAULT MAP