Tectonic setting of the 1971 Sylmar and 1994 Northridge earthquakes in the San Fernando Valley, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1232-1249

  Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yeats, Robert S ^a  

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EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE 1994; REVERSE FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

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EID: 0033493537     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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