Whittier Fault

{{Short description|Geologic fault in eastern Los Angesles County in Southern California}} {{No footnotes|date=May 2021}}

{{Infobox fault|name=Whittier Fault|country=USA|state=California|location=eastern Los Angeles County|type=right-lateral strike-slip fault|part_of=Elsinore Fault Zone|length=40km}}

The '''Whittier Fault''' is a geologic fault located in eastern Los Angeles County in Southern California, that is one of the two upper branches of the Elsinore Fault Zone, with the Chino Fault the second.

==Geology== The Whittier Fault is a {{convert|40|km|mi|adj=on|order=flip}} right-lateral strike-slip fault that runs along the Chino Hills range between the cities of Chino Hills and Whittier. The fault has a slip rate of {{convert|2.5|to|3.0|mm|in|order=flip}} per year. It is estimated that this fault could generate a quake of {{M|w|link="no"}}6.0–7.2 on the moment magnitude scale.

==See also== * Puente Hills Fault * San Andreas Fault

==References== * {{cite web | url = http://www.data.scec.org/significant/whittier.html | title = Whittier Fault | publisher = Southern California Earthquake Data Center | access-date = April 27, 2006 }}

Category:Seismic faults of California Category:Strike-slip faults Category:Geology of Los Angeles County, California Category:Geology of Orange County, California Category:Geology of Riverside County, California Category:Geography of the San Gabriel Valley Category:Chino Hills (California) Category:Whittier, California