Coseismic deformation of the Wrights tunnel during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: A key to understanding 1906 fault slip and 1989 surface ruptures in the southern Santa Cruz Mountains, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B1, 1997, Pages 635-648

  Prentice, Carol S ^a   Ponti, Daniel J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC SLIP; DEFORMATION; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 1906; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TUNNEL; TUNNEL DEFORMATION;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, WRIGHTS TUNNEL;

EID: 0030832551     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb02934     Document Type: Article

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