White Wolf Fault

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The White Wolf Fault is a fault in southern California, located north of the intersection of the San Andreas Fault and the Garlock Fault, and north of the Tehachapi Mountains. It is classed as a reverse (vertical motion) fault with a left lateral (sinistral) component. The White Wolf Fault was the source of the July 21, 1952, Kern County earthquake (M=7.3), the second largest earthquake in California during the 20th century.

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.

v t e Seismically active fault zones, and tectonic blocks of California

Statewide Faults	San Andreas Fault

Faults, zones, and blocks of Southern California	Brawley Seismic Zone Chino Fault Elsinore Fault Zone Elysian Park Fault Garlock Fault Hosgri Fault Imperial Fault Zone Laguna Salada Fault Newport-Inglewood Fault Peninsular Ranges Puente Hills Fault Raymond Fault Rose Canyon Fault Salton Trough Salinian Block San Felipe Fault Zone San Gabriel Fault San Jacinto Fault Zone Santa Maria River Fault Santa Ynez Fault Shoreline Fault White Wolf Fault Whittier Fault Yorba Linda Fault

Faults and zones of Northern California	Calaveras Fault Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault Hayward Fault Zone Healdsburg Fault Maacama Fault Mendocino Fracture Zone Mendocino Triple Junction Mount Diablo Thrust Fault Monta Vista Fault Pleasanton Fault San Gregorio Fault San Pablo Fault Seal Cove Fault Serra Fault Silver Creek Fault Tesla Fault

Sierra Nevada faults, zones, and blocks	Death Valley Fault Zone Furnace Creek Fault Zone Honey Lake Fault Zone Kern Canyon Fault Maria fold and thrust belt Rescue Lineament-Bear Mountains fault zone Sierra Nevada Batholith Sierra Nevada Fault Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Block Smartville Block Walker Lane

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