1957 Gobi-Altay, Mongolia, earthquake as a prototype for southern California's most devastating earthquake

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 579-582

  Bayarsayhan, C ^a   Bayasgalan, A ^a   Enhtuvshin, B ^a   Hudnut, Kenneth W ^b   Kurushin, R A ^c   Molnar, Peter ^d   Olziybat M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS;

CALIFORNIA; FAULT SYSTEM; LOS ANGELES; LOS ANGELES BASIN; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THRUST FAULTING; THRUST FAULTS;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; FAULTING; GOBI-ALTAY EARTHQUAKE 1957; STRIKE SLIP; THRUST FAULTING;

CALIFORNIA; GOVI-ALTAY; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; MONGOLIA; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; GOBI-ALTAY; USA;

EID: 0030513707     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0579:GAMEAA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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