The Carmen Fault is a right lateral-moving transform fault located on the seafloor of the southern Gulf of California.
All these features are part of the Gulf of California Rift Zone, the northern extension of the East Pacific Rise.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred along the Carmen Fault on January 19, 2017.
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