The 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska: A large magnitude, slip-partitioned event

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5622, 2003, Pages 1113-1118

  Eberhart Phillips, Donna ^a   Haeussler, Peter J ^a   Freymueller, Jeffrey T ^b   Frankel, Arthur D ^c   Rubin, Charles M ^d   Craw, Patricia ^e   Ratchkovski, Natalia A ^b   Anderson, Greg ^a   Carver, Gary A ^f   Crone, Anthony J ^c   Dawson, Timothy E ^g   Fletcher, Hilary ^b   Hansen, Roger ^b   Harp, Edwin L ^c   Harris, Ruth A ^g   Hill, David P ^g   Hreinsdóttir, Sigrún ^b   Jibson, Randall W ^c   Jones, Lucile M ^a   Kayen, Robert ^g   Keefer, David K ^g   Larsen, Christopher F ^b   Moran, Seth C ^a   Personius, Stephen F ^c   Plafker, George ^g   Sherrod, Brian ^h   Sieh, Kerry ⁱ   Sitar, Nicholas ^j   Wallace, Wesley K ^b   more..

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Alaska Div of Geological Surveys   (United States)

^f CARVER GEOLOGIC Inc   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j Berkeley   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; HAZARDS; SEISMOLOGY;

SURFACE RUPTURES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PARTITIONING; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; HAZARD; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038701748     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082703     Document Type: Article

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