State of stress before and after the 1994 Northridge earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 519-522

  Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TECTONICS; TENSORS; GEOPHYSICS;

HYPOCENTER; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE; STRESS INVERSION METHOD;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC; EARTHQUAKE; IN SITU STRESS; INVERSION; MAINSHOCK; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE 1994; SEISMICITY; STRESS; STRESS CHANGE;

USA, CALIFORNIA, NORTHRIDGE;

AXIS ORIENTATION; EARTHQUAKE CYCLES; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKES; STRESS INVERSION; STRESS ORIENTATIONS; STRESS RECOVERY; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

EID: 0031104613     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00258     Document Type: Article

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