Migrating tremors illuminate complex deformation beneath the seismogenic San Andreas fault

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7281, 2010, Pages 648-652

  Shelly, David R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; HETEROGENEITY; PLATE TECTONICS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC ZONE;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; MIGRATION; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TREMOR; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76249101575     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08755     Document Type: Article

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