Assessment of creep events as potential earthquake precursors: Application to the creeping section of the San Andreas fault, California

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 685-705

  Thurber, Clifford ^a   Sessions, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Creep; Earthquake; Precursors; Prediction; San Andreas fault

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EARTHQUAKE PRECURSOR; FAULT; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

EID: 0032459405     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050172     Document Type: Article

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