San Andreas fault earthquake chronology and Lake Cahuilla history at Coachella, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-38

  Philibosian, Belle ^a   Fumal, Thomas ^b   Weldon, Ray ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; RENEWAL MODEL; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; TECTONIC STRESS;

LAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOSEISMICITY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALIFORNIA; COACHELLA VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251642735     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100050     Document Type: Article

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