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  Pinto Mountain Fault

TYPE OF FAULTING: left-lateral strike-slip
LENGTH: at least 73 km;
possibly as long as 90 km
NEAREST COMMUNITIES: Twentynine Palms, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley
MOST RECENT RUPTURE: Holocene; experienced triggered slip in 1992, due to shaking from the Landers earthquake
SLIP RATE: about 1.0 mm/yr
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: uncertain
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.5 - 7.5
OTHER NOTES: Forms several cross-cutting relations and complex intersections with other faults.

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This fault is featured on the following maps:

MOJAVE FAULT MAP
SOUTHERN FAULT MAP