Correlation between deep fluids, tremor and creep along the central San Andreas fault

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7375, 2011, Pages 87-90

  Becken, Michael ^a,b,d   Ritter, Oliver ^a   Bedrosian, Paul A ^c   Weckmann, Ute ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL;

AMPLITUDE; CORRELATION; CRUST; DATA SET; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FLUID; MANTLE; PRESSURE EFFECT;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CHEMICAL REACTION; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ENZYME KINETICS; FRICTION; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SALINITY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; VELOCITY; VOLCANO;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82555195565     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10609     Document Type: Article

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