Fault structure and kinematics of the Long Valley Caldera region, California, revealed by high-accuracy earthquake hypocenters and focal mechanism stress inversions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Prejean, Stephanie ^a,b   Ellsworth, William ^b   Zoback, Mark ^a   Waldhauser, Felix ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Faults; Long Valley; Relocation; Seismicity; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULT PLANE; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CALIFORNIA; LONG VALLEY CALDERA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038521321     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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