Complex faulting associated with the 22 December 2003 Mw 6.5 San Simeon California, earthquake, aftershocks and postseismic surface deformation

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1659-1680

  McLaren, Marcia K ^a   Hardebeck, Jeanne L ^b   van der Elst, Nicholas ^c   Unruh, Jeffrey R ^d   Bawden, Gerald W ^e   Blair, J Luke ^e  

^a PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d William Lettis and Associates   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SEISMIC NETWORKS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; REVERSE FAULT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRUST FAULT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN SIMEON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50549097717     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070088     Document Type: Article

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