LiDAR-Assisted identification of an active fault near Truckee, California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1162-1181

  Hunter, L E ^a   Howle, J F ^b   Rose, R S ^a   Bawden, G W ^b  

^a US Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; CALIFORNIA; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; FAULT PATTERNS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; LATE QUATERNARY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; POLARIS; REGIONAL PATTERN; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SLIP RATES; STRESS REGIME; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WALKER LANE;

EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FAULT DETECTION;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; LIDAR; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; TRUCKEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957895780     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090261     Document Type: Article

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