San Andreas Fault damage at SAFOD viewed with fault-guided waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Li, Yong Gang ^a   Malin, Peter E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; BORE HOLE; FAULT ZONES; FINITE DIFFERENCE (FD); GUIDED WAVES; LOW VELOCITIES; PARKFIELD; SAN ANDREAS FAULT (SAF); SURFACE ARRAY; TRAVEL TIME;

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

FAULT ZONE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOGRAPH; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48249130104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032924     Document Type: Article

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