The 2010 Mw 7.2 El mayor-cucapah earthquake sequence, Baja California, Mexico and Southernmost California, USA: Active seismotectonics along the Mexican pacific margin

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 8-9, 2011, Pages 1255-1277

  Hauksson, Egill ^a   Stock, Joann ^a   Hutton, Kate ^a   Yang, Wenzheng ^a   Vidal Villegas, J Antonio ^b   Kanamori, Hiroo ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aftershocks; Baja california; El mayor cucapah earthquake; Faults; Margin processes; Mexican pacific margin; Pacific north america plate boundary; Seismicity; Seismotectonics; Southern california; Tomography

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AFTERSHOCKS; BAJA CALIFORNIA; MEXICAN PACIFIC MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; FORESHOCK; NORMAL FAULT; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; MEXICALI VALLEY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053106305     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0209-7     Document Type: Article

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