New methods for estimating the spatial distribution of locked asperities and stress-driven interseismic creep on faults with application to the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Johnson, Kaj M ^a   Fukuda, Jun'ichi ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ASPERITY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CREEP; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT SLIP; FORWARD MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMIC DATA; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650035291     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007703     Document Type: Article

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