Sensitivity of earthquake cycles on the San Andreas fault to small changes in regional compression

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6638, 1997, Pages 158-161

  Wang, Chi Yuen ^a   Cai, Yongen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE CYCLE; SEISMICITY; SENSITIVITY; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DATA ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

EID: 0030752959     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40601     Document Type: Article

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