Puente Hills blind-thrust system, Los Angeles, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2946-2960

  Shaw, John H ^a   Plesch, Andreas ^a   Dolan, James F ^b   Pratt, Thomas L ^c   Fiore, Patricia ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; OIL WELLS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

SEISMIC REFLECTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; THRUST FAULT;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036946357     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010291     Document Type: Article

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