Sedimentary record of the 1872 earthquake and “Tsunami” at Owens Lake, southeast California

A 25,000-year record of earthquakes on the Owens Valley fault near Lone Pine, California: Implications for recurrence intervals, slip rates, and segmentation models

“…During this earthquake, numerous rockfalls were observed in the central and southern Sierra Nevada Range (Schumacher, 1962;Ellsworth, 1990;Bull, 1996). Moreover, several sediment cores from Owens Lake reveal liquefaction features that are truncated by tsunami sand deposits associated with the A.D. 1872 earthquake (Smoot et al, 2000). The documented secondary evidence associated with the A.D. 1872 earthquake demonstrates how susceptible Owens Valley sediments are to earthquake-induced secondary effects under the historical climatic regime.…”

Are great Cascadia earthquakes recorded in the sedimentary records from small forearc lakes?

“…The time span represented by these records is variable, but frequently surpasses 10 000 yr. Lacustrine turbidite palaeoseismology has been used to reconstruct earthquake chronologies around the world, including Switzerland (Schnellman et al, 2002;Arnaud et al, 2006;Strasser et al, 2006), Chile, (Arnaud et al, 2006;Moernaut et al, 2007;Bertrand et al, 2008;Charlet et al, 2008), Argentina (Waldmann et al, 2008), Venezuela (Carrillo et al, 2008), France (Chapron et al, 1999;Arnaud et al, 2002;Guyard et al, 2007;Beck, 2009), Kyrghyzstan (Bowman et al, 2004), Japan, (Shiki et al, 2000a), Russia (Nelson et al, 1995), Canada (Doig, 1986(Doig, , 1990(Doig, , 1991, New Zealand (Orpin et al, 2010;Howarth et al, 2012), California (Smoot et al, 2000;Seitz and Kent, 2005;Kent et al, 2005;Brothers et al, 2009), Arizona (Twitchell et al, 2005), as well as in the vicinity of the CSZ at Lake Washington, USA (Karlin et al, 2004;Abella, 1992, 1996). In favourable settings, reconstructions can reach 50 000 yr (late-Pleistocene Lake Lisan, palaeo-Dead Sea; Marco et al, 1996).…”

Last glacial maximum and Holocene lake levels of Owens Lake, eastern California, USA

“…Several shorelines of different ages are deformed where they extend across or are near fault zones (Carver, 1970;Beanland and Clark, 1994;Bacon, 2003). For example, the magnitude 7 1 2 -7 3 4 Owens Valley earthquake in 1872 AD, created a seismic seiche (tsunami) as well as laterally shifted the position of the eastern shoreline of Owens Lake hundreds of meters to the west, raising the western shoreline $1 m in altitude (Ventura Signal, 1872;Meyer, 1977;Smoot et al, 2000).…”