A silent Mw 4.7 slip event of October 2006 on the Superstition Hills fault, southern California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Wei, Meng ^a   Sandwell, David ^a   Fialko, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; CREEP; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVISAT-1; ERS-1; ERS-2; FAULT SLIP; FIELD SURVEY; GPS; HECTOR MINE EARTHQUAKE 1999; LANDERS EARTHQUAKE 1992; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SUPERSTITION HILLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349265320     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006135     Document Type: Article

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