Implications of diverse fault orientations imaged in relocated aftershocks of the Mount Lewis, ML 5.7, California, earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Kilb, D ^a   Rubin, A M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Coulomb Stress; Friction; Mt. Lewis; Perpendicular Faults; Rate and State; Relocated Earthquakes

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; FRICTION; MICROEARTHQUAKE; ORIENTATION; RELOCATION;

CALIFORNIA; MOUNT LEWIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038556731     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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