Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayorg-Cucapah earthquake of Baja California in Mexico

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 615-618

  Wei, Shengji ^a   Fielding, Eric ^b   Leprince, Sebastien ^a   Sladen, Anthony ^a,c   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^a   Helmberger, Don ^a   Hauksson, Egill ^a   Chu, Risheng ^a   Simons, Mark ^a   Hudnut, Kenneth ^a,d   Herring, Thomas ^e   Briggs, Richard ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; MOUNTAIN REGION; REMOTE SENSING; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; COLORADO DELTA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 80052324940     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1213     Document Type: Article

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