The 2007 M5.4 Alum Rock, California, earthquake: Implications for future earthquakes on the central and southern Calaveras Fault

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Oppenheimer, David H ^a   Bakun, William H ^a   Parsons, Tom ^a   Simpson, Robert W ^a   Boatwright, John ^a   Uhrhammer, Robert A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULT; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOLOGY; TREND ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; HAYWARD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955526826     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006683     Document Type: Article

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