The 2011 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake, and Its Significance for Seismic Hazards in Eastern North America

Aftershocks illuminate the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake causative fault zone and nearby active faults
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Published:January 01, 2015
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J. Wright Horton, Jr., Anjana K. Shah, Daniel E. McNamara, Stephen L. Snyder, Aina M. Carter, 2015. "Aftershocks illuminate the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake causative fault zone and nearby active faults", The 2011 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake, and Its Significance for Seismic Hazards in Eastern North America, J. Wright Horton, Jr., Martin C. Chapman, Russell A. Green
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Deployment of temporary seismic stations after the 2011 Mineral, Virginia (USA), earthquake produced a well-recorded aftershock sequence. The majority of aftershocks are in a tabular cluster that delineates the previously unknown Quail fault zone. Quail fault zone aftershocks range from ~3 to 8 km in depth and are in a 1-km-thick zone striking ~036° and dipping ~50°SE, consistent with a 028°, 50°SE main-shock nodal plane having mostly reverse slip. This cluster extends ~10 km along strike. The Quail fault zone projects to the surface in gneiss of the Ordovician Chopawamsic Formation just southeast of the Ordovician–Silurian Ellisville Granodiorite pluton tail....
- aftershocks
- dip
- earthquakes
- fault zones
- faults
- granodiorites
- igneous rocks
- Louisa County Virginia
- Ordovician
- Paleozoic
- plutonic rocks
- reactivation
- seismicity
- shallow-focus earthquakes
- strike
- tectonics
- United States
- Virginia
- Quantico Formation
- Lakeside fault zone
- Ellisville Pluton
- Mineral earthquake 2011
- Quail fault zone