Evidence for deep magma injection beneath Lake Tahoe, Nevada-California

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5688, 2004, Pages 1277-1280

  Smith, Kenneth D ^a   Von Seggern, David ^a   Blewitt, Geoffrey ^a,b   Preston, Leiph ^a   Anderson, John G ^a   Wernicke, Brian P ^c   Davis, James L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LAKES; STRAIN RATE;

ASEISMIC FORCING MECHANISM; HYPOCENTRAL DEPTHS; MAGMA; TRANSIENT DISPLACEMENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; MAGMATISM; STRAIN RATE;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; ELASTICITY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY;

LAKE TAHOE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344602176     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101304     Document Type: Article

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23. The University of Nevada, Reno seismic network in northern Nevada is operated under the U.S. GeologIcal Survey National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program with support from the State of Nevada. The GPS data analysis was funded by the Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain Project. The BARGEN GPS network is funded by NSF and the Department of Energy, with operational support from UNAVCO, Inc. The GIPSY OASIS II software and global GPS data products were provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We thank G. Oppliger for a review of the manuscript and M. Coolbaugh for generating the regional strain map figure. Several stations in the Nevada K-12 seismic network, Storey County High School, Carson City High School, and Douglas County High School contributed phase arrival data for constraining earthquake locations in the lower-crustal swarm. We thank three anonymous reviewers for their time and effort in reviewing the manuscript.