Comparison of seismic and geodetic scalar moment rates across the Basin and Range province

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-32

  Pancha, Aasha ^a   Anderson, John G ^a   Kreemer, Corné ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION RATE; GEODETIC PATTERN; SCALAR MOMENT RATES; SEISMIC-MOMENT RATES; SPACE GEODESY;

SEISMOLOGY;

GEODESY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33644514935     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040166     Document Type: Article

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