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1 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA, and Laboratoire de Tectonique, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France
2 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
3 Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA
We document the precise sizes, but not the dates, of the six latest offsets across the San Andreas fault at Wallace Creek, California. Three and perhaps four of these, including the latest in 1857, show dextral offset of 7.5–8 m. The third and fourth offsets, however, are just 1.4 and 5.2 m. The predominance of similar offsets for the latest six events suggests that the fundamental properties of the fault system that control slip size do not vary greatly from event to event. The large offsets imply that ruptures involving this site are typically more than 200 km long.
Key Words: San Andreas • fault • paleoseismology • earthquake • rupture
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