Tremor reveals stress shadowing, deep postseismic creep, and depth-dependent slip recurrence on the lower-crustal San Andreas fault near Parkfield

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Shelly, David R ^a   Johnson, Kaj M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DEEP FAULT; DEPTH DEPENDENCE; LOWER CRUST; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POSTSEISMIC SLIP; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STATIC SHEAR STRESS; STATIC STRESS;

CREEP;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; LOWER CRUST; PARKFIELD EARTHQUAKE 2004; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SAN SIMEON EARTHQUAKE 2003; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL; SLIP RATE; STATIC RESPONSE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960229627     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047863     Document Type: Article

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