Evidence of shallow fault zone strengthening after the 1992 M7.5 Landers, California, earthquake

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5348, 1998, Pages 217-219

  Li, Yong Gang ^a   Vidale, John E ^b   Aki, Keiiti ^a   Xu, Fei ^b   Burdette, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; LANDERS EARTHQUAKE 1992; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; UNITED STATES; WAVEFORM;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0032498224     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5348.217     Document Type: Article

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39. Supported by NSF grant EAR-9404762 and the Southern California Earthquake Center under NSF grant EAR-8920136 and U.S. Geological Survey grant 14-0A-0001-A0899. We appreciate D. Adams, S. Arturo, D. Bowman, G. Ely, K. Favret, M. Forrest, A. Martin, J. Wedberg, and A. Wei for their work in the field. We thank the U.S. Bureau of Land Management at Barstow, CA, and many land property owners at Landers, including E. Landau and R. Hawley for their permission to carry out the experiment in the public and private lands. We acknowledge the support of the IRIS-PASSCAL Instrument Center for the use of their instruments.