Geologic setting of the 1884 Bear Lake, Idaho, earthquake: Rupture in the hanging wall of a basin and range normal fault revealed by historical and geological analyses

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1621-1632

  Evans, James P ^a   Martindale, Dawn C ^a   Kendrick Jr , Richard D ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGY;

FAULT ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; HANGING WALL; HISTORICAL RECORD; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY;

BEAR LAKE; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242337632     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020159     Document Type: Article

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