Estimating surface rupture length and magnitude of paleoearthquakes from point measurements of rupture displacement

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1612-1623

  Biasi, Glenn P ^a   Weldon II, Ray J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PALEOEARTHQUAKES; RUPTURE DISPLACEMENT; RUPTURE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE RUPTURE LENGTH;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

EID: 33750318131     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040172     Document Type: Article

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