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  Laguna Salada Fault Zone

TYPE OF FAULT: right-lateral strike-slip; right-lateral normal oblique
LENGTH: about 70 km
NEAREST COMMUNITIES: Plaster City, CA; Progresso, Baja California
MOST RECENT SURFACE RUPTURE: February 23, 1892, magnitude 7; otherwise, Holocene
SLIP RATE: roughly 4 mm/yr (?)
INTERVAL BETWEEN MAJOR RUPTURES: unknown
PROBABLE MAGNITUDES: MW6.5 - 7.5
OTHER NOTES: Faults dip to the west.

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This fault is featured on the following map:

SOUTHERN FAULT MAP