San Francisco Bay Area earthquake simulations: A step toward a standard physical earthquake model

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 370-386

  Ward, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT GEOMETRY; MODELING; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMICITY; URBAN AREA;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034130625     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0119990026     Document Type: Article

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