Comment on "Late Holocene rupture of the northern San Andreas fault and possible stress linkage to the Cascadia subduction zone" by Chris Goldfinger, Kelly Grijalva, Roland Bürgmann, Ann E. Morey, Joel E. Johnson, C. Hans Nelson, Julia Gutie ́rrez-Pastor, Andrew Ericsson, Eugene Karabanov, Jason D. Chaytor, Jason Patton, and Eulàlia Gràcia

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2594-2598

  Shanmugam, Ganapathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HOLOCENE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRESS ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 69549136016     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080030     Document Type: Article

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