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{{Short description|Fault in California, United States}}
The '''Chino Fault''' extends along the eastern [[Chino Hills|Chino Hills range]] region, from [[Corona, California|Corona]] in [[Riverside County, California|Riverside County]] to the [[Los Serranos, Chino Hills, California|Los Serranos, Chino Hills]] area of [[San Bernardino County, California|San Bernardino County]] in [[Southern California]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/external/reports/02HQGR0046.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221545/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/external/reports/02HQGR0046.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2016-03-03 | title = The Chino Fault and Its Relation to Slip on the Elsinore and Whittier Faults and Blind Thrusts in the Puente Hills | publisher = United States Geological Survey|author= Robert S. Yeats}}</ref>

==Geology==
The Chino Fault and [[Whittier Fault]] are the two upper branches of the [[Elsinore Fault Zone]],<ref>{{Cite Q|Q66372720}}</ref> which is part of the trilateral split of the [[San Andreas Fault]] system. The right-lateral strike-slip [[Fault (geology)|fault]] has a slip rate of 1.0 millimeter/year and is capable of producing anywhere from a {{M|w|link=y}} 6.0 to a {{M|w|link=y}} 7.0 earthquake.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.data.scec.org/fault_index/chino.html | title = Chino Fault | publisher = Southern California Earthquake Data Center | access-date = 2008-11-12 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090313185209/http://www.data.scec.org/fault_index/chino.html | archive-date = 2009-03-13 | url-status = dead}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[2008 Chino Hills earthquake]] – ''Whittier Fault''
* [[Puente Hills Fault]]

==References==
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{{California Faults}}

[[Category:Seismic faults of California]]
[[Category:Strike-slip faults]]
[[Category:Chino Hills (California)]]
[[Category:Geology of Riverside County, California]]
[[Category:Geology of San Bernardino County, California]]
[[Category:Geography of Corona, California]]


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