Remote triggering of fault-strength changes on the San Andreas fault at Parkfield

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7264, 2009, Pages 636-639

  Taira, Takaaki ^a   Silver, Paul G ^a   Niu, Fenglin ^b   Nadeau, Robert M ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT ZONE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PERTURBATION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMICITY; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; STRENGTH; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349680766     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08395     Document Type: Article

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