Data from: On the rupture propagation of the 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley Earthquake, and the lack of immediate triggering of the M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake

The 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley, Southern California, earthquake nucleated on
a buried right-lateral fault segment and propagated around a perpendicular
fault intersection to a surface-outcropping left-lateral segment, but it
did not propagate coseismically to the intersecting fault of the
subsequent M7.1 Ridgecrest mainshock. We use the 3D finite element method
to explore the physical reasons for this curious rupture path. Rather than
model the details of the measured and inferred slip distribution, we use
simple constant-traction assumptions to explore how initial stress,
hypocenter location, and the depth of burial of the initial right-lateral
segment may have influenced rupture propagation. The results suggest that
only a narrow range of fault stresses, fault burial depths, and hypocenter
locations would result in the observed rupture path in this earthquake.
The results may have implications for interactions between faults in
Southern California and beyond.