Band of precariously balanced rocks between the Elsinore and San Jacinto, California, fault zones: Constraints on ground motion for large earthquakes

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 137-140

  Brune, James N ^a   Anooshehpoor, Abdolrasool ^a   Purvance, Matthew D ^a   Brune, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Ground motion; Precariously balanced rocks; Seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKES; PROBABILITY; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; CURVE FITTING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; HAZARDS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

GROUND MOTION; PRECARIOUSLY BALANCED ROCKS; SEISMIC HAZARD; GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION ATTENUATIONS; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG GROUND MOTION;

PETROLOGY; FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; SEISMICITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN JACINTO; UNITED STATES; BORREGO BADLANDS; DENMARK; HELSINGOR; HOVEDSTADEN;

EID: 33645231478     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22127.1     Document Type: Article

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