The most recent large earthquake on the Rodgers Creek fault, San Francisco bay area

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 844-860

  Hecker, Suzanne ^a   Pantosti, Daniela ^b   Schwartz, David P ^a   Hamilton, John C ^a   Reidy, Liam M ^c   Powers, Thomas J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

AGE CONSTRAINTS; LOCAL SETTLEMENTS; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKE (MRE); STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22744454823     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040134     Document Type: Article

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