San Andreas fault rupture scenarios from multiple paleoseismic records: Stringing pearls

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 471-498

  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

CALIFORNIA; EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT LENGTH; FAULT-SLIP RATES; RATE MODELS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP RATES; WORKING GROUPS;

EARTHQUAKES; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SLIP; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOSEISMICITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SLIP RATE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN ANDREAS; SAN BERNARDINO; UNITED STATES; WRIGHTWOOD;

CARRIZO;

EID: 67649949739     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080287     Document Type: Article

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