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The Clayton-Marsh Creek-Greenville Fault is a fault located in the eastern
The 5.8 magnitude 1980 Livermore earthquake occurred on this fault. The fault creeps at a rate of at 2 mm/year. The predicted probability of a major earthquake on this fault within the next 30 years is relatively low, at 3%, compared to nearby faults such as the
San Francisco Bay Area
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of California
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, in Alameda County
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and Contra Costa County. It is part of the somewhat parallel system of faults that are secondary to the San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizonta ...
.
Seismic activity
The 5.8 magnitude 1980 Livermore earthquake occurred on this fault. The fault creeps at a rate of at 2 mm/year. The predicted probability of a major earthquake on this fault within the next 30 years is relatively low, at 3%, compared to nearby faults such as the Hayward Fault
The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. This fault is about long, situated mainly along the western base of the hills on the east side of San Francisco Bay. It run ...
.
See also
*Calaveras Fault
The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault System that is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Activity on the different segments of the fault includes moderate and large earthquakes as well as aseismi ...
* Concord Fault
The Concord Fault is a geologic fault in the San Francisco Bay Area. The reason it is called that is because it is located under the city of Concord. It is connected to, and considered to be part of, the same fault zone as the Green Valley fault, ...
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