Revisiting the 1872 Owens Valley, California, Earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 931-949

  Hough, Susan E ^a   Hutton, Kate ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MACROSEISMIC EFFECTS; MAXIMUM FAULT DISPLACEMENTS; SURFACE RUPTURE;

EARTHQUAKES;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GROUND MOTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 1906; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; OWENS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42649106452     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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