Evidence for vertical partitioning of strike-slip and compressional tectonics from seismicity, focal mechanisms, and stress drops in the east Los Angeles basin area, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 964-974

  Yang, Wenzheng ^a   Hauksson, Egill ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B VALUE; CALIFORNIA; COMPLEX FAULT SYSTEM; COMPRESSIONAL; COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; DEPTH DEPENDENCE; DEPTH RANGE; EARTHQUAKE DATA; FOCAL MECHANISM; HIGH QUALITY; LOS ANGELES BASIN; REGIONAL STRESS FIELD; REVERSE FAULTS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STATE OF STRESS; STRESS DROP; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; VERTICAL PARTITIONING;

DROPS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOGRAPHS;

TECTONICS;

COMPRESSION; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; P-WAVE; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957881409     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100216     Document Type: Article

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