Performance of Water Pipelines at Fault Crossings from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes
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The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence produced extensive surface rupture affecting the Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, and multiple water pipelines that service the towns of Trona and Argus. This paper documents observations of surface rupture and their effects on buried water pipelines at four pipeline-fault crossings. At these crossing locations surface ruptures ranged from about 0–60 cm (V) and 2.1–330 cm (H). Some surface ruptures displayed complicated patterns. The water pipes are made of multiple materials and they are approximately 30.5 to 40.5 cm in diameter. For each crossing, the surface rupture characteristics and the observed pipe damages are described. It is anticipated that the field data presented herein will serve as a resource for subsequent research to validate and enhance existing knowledge on the behavior of faulting surface rupture and impacts on buried water pipelines.
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